When I create two new apps with tns, one is the regular js version and one is with typescript. I get a strange error in the typescript version when I try to access a native library.

When I create a loaded function with a console.log(pow(x,y)), it works fine with the js version but the typescript version crashes with this error.

error TS2304: Cannot find name 'pow'.

Why?

TS:

import { EventData } from "data/observable";
import { Page } from "ui/page";
import { HelloWorldModel } from "./main-view-model";

// Event handler for Page "navigatingTo" event attached in main-page.xml
export function navigatingTo(args: EventData) {
    // Get the event sender
    var page = <Page>args.object;
    page.bindingContext = new HelloWorldModel();
}

export function loaded() {
    console.log('Hello World')
    console.log('pow(2.5, 3) = ', pow(2.5, 3));
}

JS:

var createViewModel = require("./main-view-model").createViewModel;

function onNavigatingTo(args) {
    var page = args.object;
    page.bindingContext = createViewModel();
}

function loaded() {
    console.log('hello world')
    console.log('pow(2.5, 3) = ', pow(2.5, 3));
}

exports.onNavigatingTo = onNavigatingTo;
exports.loaded = loaded;