Typescript cannot find name window or document

Question

For either case:

document.getElementById('body'); // or window.document.getElementById('body'); 

I get error TS2304: Cannot find name 'window'.

Am I missing something in tsconfig.json for a definition file I should install?

I get the message when running tsc and in vscode

tsconfig.json:

{     "compilerOptions": {         "allowJs": true,         "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,         "experimentalDecorators": true,         "jsx": "react",         "module": "commonjs",         "moduleResolution": "node",         "noEmitOnError": true,         "noImplicitAny": false,         "sourceMap": true,         "suppressImplicitAnyIndexErrors": true,         "target": "ES2016",         "typeRoots": [             "node_modules/@types/",             "typings/index.d.ts"         ]     },     "exclude": [         "node_modules",         "**/*-aot.ts"     ] } 

My Answer: For use with tsconfig.json I target es5 and use lib: ["es2015", "dom"]

Answer 1

use

"lib": ["dom"] 

in tsconfig.json

e.g.

{   "compilerOptions": {     "lib": ["es5", "es6", "dom"],     "outDir": "./dist/",     "sourceMap": true,     "noImplicitAny": true,     "module": "commonjs",     "target": "es6",     "moduleResolution": "node",     "jsx": "react"   },   "include": ["./src/**/*"] }