ERROR - Exports must be a statement at the top-level of a module when compiling es6 output from typescript compiler

Typescript output for an enum fails to compile with closure compiler because it assigns an export inside of a statement. For example

export enum Foo {}

transpiles to

var Foo;
(function (Foo) {
})(Foo = exports.Foo || (exports.Foo = {}));

as demonstrated here

When closure compiler is run on that code it results in the error ERROR - Exports must be a statement at the top-level of a module

I don’t believe that this should cause an error. Es6 supports this syntax. At the very least a there should be an option to make this into a warning or @suppress it.

[alexeagle]

I don’t think that’s the right option, should be “angularCompilerOptions”: { “annotateForClosureCompiler”: true }

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 1:35 PM Tyler Davis [e-mail] wrote:

with “googleClosureOutput”: true

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[alexeagle]

Oh, hi, you didn’t use the magic word. I remember that option now - it was from the early prototype of tsc_wrapped that you guys forked. Glad it’s fixed.