Duplicate identifier error when 2 projects, main and dependent, both supply type definitions for a knockout/jquery library

[mKlus]

I have VS solution that has multiple projects.
There is a ProjectA that imports jquery and knockout and ProjectB that imports class from ProjectA and also imports knockout and jquery.
When I compile the solution (or projectB) in VS 2015 Update 3 with TS 2.0.6 installed I get the below errors.

2>D:\Temp\TSProject\TSProjectA\node_modules\@types\jquery\index.d.ts(623,5): error TS2374: Build:Duplicate string index signature. 2>D:\Temp\TSProject\TSProjectA\node_modules\@types\jquery\index.d.ts(2872,5): error TS2374: Build:Duplicate string index signature. 2>D:\Temp\TSProject\TSProjectA\node_modules\@types\jquery\index.d.ts(2873,5): error TS2375: Build:Duplicate number index signature. 2>D:\Temp\TSProject\TSProjectA\node_modules\@types\jquery\index.d.ts(3246,5): error TS2300: Build:Duplicate identifier 'export='. 2>D:\Temp\TSProject\TSProjectA\node_modules\@types\knockout\index.d.ts(8,5): error TS2374: Build:Duplicate string index signature. 2>D:\Temp\TSProject\TSProjectA\node_modules\@types\knockout\index.d.ts(14,5): error TS2374: Build:Duplicate string index signature. 2>D:\Temp\TSProject\TSProjectA\node_modules\@types\knockout\index.d.ts(18,5): error TS2374: Build:Duplicate string index signature. 2>D:\Temp\TSProject\TSProjectA\node_modules\@types\knockout\index.d.ts(38,5): error TS2374: Build:Duplicate string index signature. 2>D:\Temp\TSProject\TSProjectA\node_modules\@types\knockout\index.d.ts(160,5): error TS2374: Build:Duplicate string index signature. 2>D:\Temp\TSProject\TSProjectA\node_modules\@types\knockout\index.d.ts(682,2): error TS2300: Build:Duplicate identifier 'export='. 2>D:\Temp\TSProject\TSProjectMain\node_modules\@types\jquery\index.d.ts(3246,5): error TS2300: Build:Duplicate identifier 'export='. 2>D:\Temp\TSProject\TSProjectMain\node_modules\@types\knockout\index.d.ts(682,2): error TS2300: Build:Duplicate identifier 'export='.

I have attached a simplified solution where the issue is reproducible.

TSProject.zip

Seems to be related to issue #10968.

[mhegazy]

this looks like the same issue as #6496.

The declaration files for Jquery and knockout are declared in the global scope. this means that there is only one of them that can exist at a time. this results to conflicts once two files exist on disk.

The correct fix is to update the declaration files to be authored as modules instead of global, since they are rely not global.

as a workaround, you can add a path mapping entry in your tsconfig.json to make sure the second set of files are never loaded.

// TSProjectMain/tsconfig.json
{
    "compileOnSave": true,
    "compilerOptions": {
        "lib": [ "dom", "es2015.promise", "es5", "scripthost" ],
        "module": "amd",
        "moduleResolution": "node",
        "noImplicitAny": true,
        "removeComments": false,
        "preserveConstEnums": true,
        "sourceMap": true,
        "target": "es5",
        "baseUrl": "./",
        "paths": {
            "*" : ["../TSProjectA/node_modules/@types/*", "./node_modules/@types/*", "*"]
        },
        "types": []
    }
}

Alternatively, do not install @types\jquery in your second project, since your first project adds them already.

[AdrienTorris]

Add a 'paths' section to my tsconfig.json worked perfectly for me.