microsoft / microsoft/TypeScript
Error when accessing properties on `globalThis` with the same name of a global variable
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Description
🔎 Search Terms
globalThis redefined error script property does not exist
🕗 Version & Regression Information
- This is the behavior in every version I tried
⏯ Playground Link
💻 Code
let invalid1 = globalThis.invalid1;
let y = globalThis.invalid1;
let z = globalThis.invalid2;
🙁 Actual behavior
Property 'invalid1' does not exist on type 'typeof globalThis'.
🙂 Expected behavior
It should either complain about both invalid1 and invalid2, or neither
Additional information about the issue
It only happens in scripts and not in modules (if I add export {}, there are no reported errors).
Contributor guide
First steps
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the linked TypeScript Playground repro and compare diagnostics for the script and module versions. Trace how the type checker handles globalThis property access when a same-named global variable is declared; done means invalid1 and invalid2 receive consistent diagnostics without changing the documented module behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100