I use Lift as a web framework. Lift allows to generate JavaScript code and than to execute it on the page. I needed to execute a JavaScript function from that generated code. Since I use TypeScript for frontend development, I faced a problem here: How to create a global scoped function? Something like:

window.myFunction = function(){
// ...
}

 

Fortunately, I found a trick. Behold:

;( <any> window).myFunction = function():void {
// ...
}

 

For TSX:

;( window as any).myFunction = function():void {
// ...
}

 

Now you can call this function from JavaScript inside <script> tags on the page. But to call this function from a module, generated by Typescript, you need to declare it:

declare function myFunction():void

 

Now you can call this function from everywhere.