Angular: Can't find Promise, Map, Set and Iter

Question

After installing Angular, the Typescript compiler keep getting some errors about not finding Promise, Map, Set and Iterator.

Until now I ignored them but now I need Promise so my code can work.

import {Component} from 'angular2/core';
@Component({
    selector: 'greeting-cmp',
    template: `<div>{{ asyncGreeting | async}}</div>`
})
export class GreetingCmp {
    asyncGreeting: Promise<string> = new Promise(resolve => {
// after 1 second, the promise will resolve
        window.setTimeout(() => resolve('hello'), 1000);
    });
}

Additional information:
npm -v is 2.14.12
node -v is v4.3.1
typescript v is 1.6

The errors:

................ERROS OF MY CODE.................
    C:\Users\armyTik\Desktop\angular2\greeting_cmp.ts
    Error:(7, 20) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(7, 42) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    .........................................
    C:\Users\armyTik\Desktop\angular2\node_modules\angular2\platform\browser.d.ts
    Error:(77, 90) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    C:\Users\armyTik\Desktop\angular2\node_modules\angular2\src\core\application_ref.d.ts
    Error:(83, 60) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(83, 146) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(96, 51) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(96, 147) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(133, 90) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(171, 81) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    C:\Users\armyTik\Desktop\angular2\node_modules\angular2\src\core\change_detection\parser\locals.d.ts
    Error:(3, 14) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    Error:(4, 42) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    C:\Users\armyTik\Desktop\angular2\node_modules\angular2\src\core\debug\debug_node.d.ts
    Error:(14, 13) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    Error:(24, 17) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    Error:(25, 17) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    C:\Users\armyTik\Desktop\angular2\node_modules\angular2\src\core\di\provider.d.ts
    Error:(436, 103) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    Error:(436, 135) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    C:\Users\armyTik\Desktop\angular2\node_modules\angular2\src\core\linker\compiler.d.ts
    Error:(12, 50) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(16, 41) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    C:\Users\armyTik\Desktop\angular2\node_modules\angular2\src\core\linker\dynamic_component_loader.d.ts
    Error:(108, 136) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(156, 150) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(197, 128) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(203, 127) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(204, 141) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(205, 119) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    C:\Users\armyTik\Desktop\angular2\node_modules\angular2\src\core\render\api.d.ts
    Error:(13, 13) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    Error:(14, 84) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    C:\Users\armyTik\Desktop\angular2\node_modules\angular2\src\facade\async.d.ts
    Error:(27, 33) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(28, 45) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    C:\Users\armyTik\Desktop\angular2\node_modules\angular2\src\facade\collection.d.ts
    Error:(1, 25) TS2304: Cannot find name 'MapConstructor'.
    Error:(2, 25) TS2304: Cannot find name 'SetConstructor'.
    Error:(4, 27) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    Error:(4, 39) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    Error:(7, 9) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    Error:(8, 30) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    Error:(11, 43) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    Error:(12, 27) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    Error:(14, 23) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    Error:(15, 25) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    Error:(95, 41) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Set'.
    Error:(96, 22) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Set'.
    Error:(97, 25) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Set'.
    C:\Users\armyTik\Desktop\angular2\node_modules\angular2\src\facade\lang.d.ts
    Error:(13, 17) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    Error:(14, 17) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Set'.
    Error:(78, 59) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    C:\Users\armyTik\Desktop\angular2\node_modules\angular2\src\facade\promise.d.ts
    Error:(2, 14) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(7, 32) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(8, 38) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(9, 35) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(9, 93) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(10, 34) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(11, 32) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(11, 149) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(12, 43) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    C:\Users\armyTik\Desktop\angular2\node_modules\angular2\src\http\headers.d.ts
    Error:(43, 59) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    C:\Users\armyTik\Desktop\angular2\node_modules\angular2\src\http\url_search_params.d.ts
    Error:(11, 16) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    C:\Users\armyTik\Desktop\angular2\node_modules\angular2\src\platform\browser\browser_adapter.d.ts
    Error:(75, 33) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    C:\Users\armyTik\Desktop\angular2\node_modules\angular2\src\platform\dom\dom_adapter.d.ts
    Error:(85, 42) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Map'.
    C:\Users\armyTik\Desktop\angular2\node_modules\rxjs\CoreOperators.d.ts
    Error:(35, 67) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(50, 66) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(89, 67) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(94, 38) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(94, 50) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    C:\Users\armyTik\Desktop\angular2\node_modules\rxjs\Observable.d.ts
    Error:(46, 62) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(47, 42) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Iterator'.
    Error:(103, 74) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(103, 84) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(143, 66) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(158, 65) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(201, 66) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(206, 38) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(206, 50) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    C:\Users\armyTik\Desktop\angular2\node_modules\rxjs\observable\ForkJoinObservable.d.ts
    Error:(6, 50) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(7, 58) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    C:\Users\armyTik\Desktop\angular2\node_modules\rxjs\observable\FromObservable.d.ts
    Error:(7, 38) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(7, 51) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Iterator'.
    C:\Users\armyTik\Desktop\angular2\node_modules\rxjs\observable\PromiseObservable.d.ts
    Error:(9, 31) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.
    Error:(10, 26) TS2304: Cannot find name 'Promise'.

Answer 1

I had similar issue where it was not recognizing Promise.resolve() method. I changed "target" value from ES5 to ES6 in tsconfig.json. That solved the problem.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Another Possible solution is to reinstall typings:
This works for me for "angular2": "2.0.0-beta.15"

1. npm clean cache
2. npm install
3. npm install -g typings
4. Delete typings directory from project (Directory wwhere typings modules are installed)
5. typings install
6. npm run

Answer 3

I got the same issue, and able to find it in github https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/1901, which state that it was an issue with typescript@2.0.2.

Downgrade typescript to 2.0.0 both globally and locally helped me to resolve it.

Globally:

npm uninstall typescript -g
npm cache clean
npm install typescript@2.0.0 -g

Locally: GO into the project folder you created by ng new

npm uninstall typescript
npm cache clean
npm install typescript@2.0.0

I also changed the version of typescript within package.json from ^2.0.0 to 2.0.0, but it didn't work until I downgrade the local typescript installation.

Answer 4

If using Angular2 RC1 with typings v1.0+ use the command:

typings install dt~core-js --save --global

to install the core-js definition and then reference your global index in your main.ts:

/// <reference path="../../../typings/index.d.ts" />

If using es6-shim or some other shim library, install typings for that instead

Refer to https://github.com/typings/typings/issues/517

Answer 5

I had a same problem when creating a promise object inside my class. By changing target name to "es5" from "es6" solved my issue.

Answer 6

I noticed these problems showing up after upgrading from Angular 5 to Angular 6. I was able to fix this by doing the following in VS2017:

• Ensure the TypeScript SDK was installed (via the Visual Studio Installer) for my particular version of TypeScript, 2.9
• Ensure that the Module System project property is set to match that in my tsconfig.json: ES2015. This is often automatically in sync if the tsconfig file is in the root of the project. However, since I was using the VS Angular template, it places these files in a "ClientApp" subfolder, and the Module System project property was not set.

tsconfig.json:

{
  "compileOnSave": false,
  "compilerOptions": {
    "outDir": "./dist/out-tsc",
    "sourceMap": true,
    "declaration": false,
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "target": "es5",
    "lib": [
      "es2017",
      "dom"
    ],
    "module": "es2015",
    "baseUrl": "./"
  }
}