TS2304: Cannot find name 'global'

[SazhinDima]

I generated typescript file and try to import it. But i have error "TS2304: Cannot find name 'global'" on line throw new global.Error("Value is larger than Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER");

Help me please.

[stephenh]

@SazhinDima are you trying to run the ts-proto output in Node on the backend or in a browser on the frontend?

[stephenh]

@SazhinDima I'm guessing that you're trying to run in the browser, where globalThis needs to be used instead of global. Can you try version 1.21.2? If you're still having issues, let me know more details about what environment you're trying to run in and what your tsconfig looks like.

[SazhinDima]

@stephenh i'm runing in the Node.js (react project)

tscinfig:

{ "compilerOptions": { "module": "commonjs", "moduleResolution": "node", "sourceMap": true, "jsx": "react", "target": "es2018", "baseUrl": ".", "experimentalDecorators": true, "skipLibCheck": true, "typeRoots": [ "./node_modules/@types" ] }, "include": [ "src/*/", "globalCss.d.ts" ], "exclude": [ "node_modules", "dist" ] }

[SazhinDima]

If i put in top: declare var global: any;

evethig works correct. But i don't know is it ok.

[stephenh]

You probably need to do npm install @types/node because global comes from node. This is not a ts-proto issue but just a TypeScript/node issue, so please use stackoverflow/etc. to resolve from here on out.

[JeViCo]

If someone still have this issue, try using globalThis instead

[stephenh]

Hi @JeViCo , thanks for the note; per globalThis, yes, at this point we have a pretty elaborate function to get the right global object:

const tsProtoGlobalThis: any = (() => {
  if (typeof globalThis !== "undefined") {
    return globalThis;
  }
  if (typeof self !== "undefined") {
    return self;
  }
  if (typeof window !== "undefined") {
    return window;
  }
  if (typeof global !== "undefined") {
    return global;
  }
  throw "Unable to locate global object";
})();

And then we do throw new tsProtoGlobalThis.Errror(...)