Don't use lib dom during compilation

[Flarna]

Currently tsconfig.json doesn't include a lib config. This results in automatically including dom - browser types (see https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig#lib)

The only place where this is needed is for global this here

Should we aim to remove this to avoid that we use/rely on these types on other places?

[dyladan]

Is there a way to only include the lib in a single file or folder? We could always manually declare types ourselves if needed.

[Flarna]

I tried via /// <reference lib="dom" /> but it looks like it's available everywhere then. It even ends up in globalThis.js and globalThis.d.ts so it is even visible in consumers.

Maybe some background why I reported this. I found that removing lib dom results in following compile error in consoleLogger.ts:

This expression is not callable.
  Each member of the union type '{ <T, R>(this: (this: T) => R, thisArg: T): R; <T, A extends any[], R>(this: (this: T, ...args: A) => R, thisArg: T, args: A): R; } | { <T>(this: new () => T, thisArg: T): void; <T, A extends any[]>(this: new (...args: A) => T, thisArg: T, args: A): void; }' has signatures, but none of those signatures are compatible with each other.

Reason is the Console is augmented in lib dom with by far more relaxed definitions.

[SimenB]

Only movement I've seen in this space is microsoft/TypeScript-DOM-lib-generator#1207, which doesn't have much movement