Typescript: Error TS2346 when importing React components written in JavaScript

[mohsen1]

TypeScript Version: 2.3.0

Code
See repo here: https://github.com/mohsen1/ts23-super-issue

import React from 'react';

export default class Component extends React.Component {
    constructor(...args) {
        super(...args)
    }
}

Expected behavior:

No error

Actual behavior:

Error: src/component.js(5,9): error TS2346: Supplied parameters do not match any signature of call target.

[mhegazy]

Covered by https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/5296

[mohsen1]

This is a very common pattern in React. For now we can @ts-ignore that line.

import React from 'react';

export default class Component extends React.Component {
    constructor(...args) {
        // @ts-ignore
        super(...args)
    }
}

[silicakes]

It also seems that TypeScript ignores the good 'ol es5 spread pattern:
super.apply(this, ...args);

A more complete demo:

function bar(a: any, b: any, c: any): void { 
    console.log(a, b, c);
}

function foo(a: number, b: number, c: number): void {
    bar.apply(null, arguments);
}

[Almenon]

Has this not been fixed or am I doing someting wrong? Just ran into this issue with typescript 2.9.1

    public handleSpawnError(pythonCommand:string, pythonPath:string, err:string){
        this.pythonPreview.handleSpawnError(...arguments)
         // gives me error: Expected three arguments, but got 0 or more
    }

pythonPreview:

    public handleSpawnError(pythonCommand:string, pythonPath:string, err:string){
        // ... code is irrelevant
    }

[shirshak55]

(super as any)(...args)

[bluEEil]

I couldn't find online any good solution to writing stuffs like:

authenticateUser = (...args: any[]) => this.authManager.authenticateUser(...args);

Is there any update on a way to do this without having to do something ugly like:

authenticateUser = (...args: any[]) => (this.authManager.authenticateUser as any)(...args);