Does TypeScript have an equivalent of ES6 "Sets"

Question

I want to extract all the unique properties from an array of objects, you can do so in ES6 very cleanly using the spread operator and the Set so:

var arr = [ {foo:1, bar:2}, {foo:2, bar:3}, {foo:3, bar:3} ]   
const uniqueBars = [... new Set(arr.map(obj => obj.bar))];

>> [2, 3]

However, in TypeScript 1.8.31 this gives me the build error:

Cannot find name 'Set'

I know I can force VS to ignore it by using

declare var Set;

But I'm hoping for something TypeScript will compile into non-ES6 so that it could be used on older systems.

Does anyone know if there's such a feature I could use?

Edit:

Actually, even when I use declare var Set;, the above code compiles but throws this error repeatedly, so I'm not sure how to use it even without compiling down:

Uncaught TypeError: (intermediate value).slice is not a function

How can I update my code to use Set in TypeScript?

Answer 1

This worked for me.

One of the issues appears to be that typescript trys to use

ERROR TypeError: (intermediate value).slice is not a function

instead of Array.from();

in any event this code worked for me in my Angular 4 applicaiton

Array.from(new Set(Array)).sort(this.compareNumbers)

hope this helps someone