Has anyone came across this error in TS with redux dev tools? "Property '__REDUX_DEVTOOLS_EXTENSION_COMPOSE__' does not exist on type 'Window'."?

Question

I'm getting this error on my index.tsx.

Property 'REDUX_DEVTOOLS_EXTENSION_COMPOSE' does not exist on type 'Window'.

Here is my index.tsx code:

import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import App from './App';
import './index.css';
import registerServiceWorker from './registerServiceWorker';

import { Provider } from 'react-redux';

import { createStore, compose, applyMiddleware } from 'redux';
import rootReducer from './store/reducers';

import thunk from 'redux-thunk';

const composeEnhancers = window.__REDUX_DEVTOOLS_EXTENSION_COMPOSE__ || compose;

 const store = createStore(rootReducer, composeEnhancers(
     applyMiddleware(thunk)
 ));

ReactDOM.render(  <Provider store={store}><App /></Provider>, document.getElementById('root'));

registerServiceWorker();

I've installed @types/npm install --save-dev redux-devtools-extension and I'm using create-react-app-typescript. Thanks alot for any tips for what's going on in advance.

Answer 1

This is a special case of this question. Redux doesn't provide types for __REDUX_DEVTOOLS_EXTENSION_COMPOSE__ because this function is exposed by Redux DevTools, not Redux itself.

It's either:

const composeEnhancers = window['__REDUX_DEVTOOLS_EXTENSION_COMPOSE__'] as typeof compose || compose;

Or:

declare global {
    interface Window {
      __REDUX_DEVTOOLS_EXTENSION_COMPOSE__?: typeof compose;
    }
}

const composeEnhancers = window.__REDUX_DEVTOOLS_EXTENSION_COMPOSE__ || compose;

This is already done by redux-devtools-extension package that contains TypeScript typings. If it's installed, its imports should be used instead of accessing __REDUX_DEVTOOLS_EXTENSION_COMPOSE__ manually.