Export a variable from within a class TS

[DriedSponge]

Is it possible to export a variable in typescript from within a class? For example:
Instead of:

export const variable = "Test";

I could do:
 

class Test{
	constructor(){
		export const variable = "test";
	}
}

Thanks in advance.

[Slottr]

Why?

[DriedSponge]

22 minutes ago, Slottr said:

Why?

Trying to eliminate the need for the parseCollection function I have:
 

class SpongeHelpers{
    public this: this;
    constructor(sel) {
        SpongeHelpers.prototype.this = this;
        if (!sel) return;
        if (typeof sel === 'function') {
            document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', sel);
        }else if (typeof sel === 'string') {
            return parseCollection.apply(document.querySelectorAll(sel));
        }

    }
    init(sel){
        return new SpongeHelpers(sel);
    }
}
//var sh;
window['$'] = SpongeHelpers.prototype.init;
const sh = SpongeHelpers.prototype.init;
var parseCollection = function(){
    parseCollection.prototype.this = this;
    return parseCollection.prototype;
};
export const col = parseCollection.prototype;

 

[vorticalbox]

3 hours ago, DriedSponge said:

Is it possible to export a variable in typescript from within a class? For example:
Instead of:

export const variable = "Test";

I could do:
 

class Test{
	constructor(){
		export const variable = "test";
	}
}

Thanks in advance.

export let variable;

class Test{
	constructor(){
		variable = "test";
	}
}

though this is bad practise you should have a public variable in the class you can access.

[DriedSponge]

6 hours ago, vorticalbox said:

export let variable;

class Test{
	constructor(){
		variable = "test";
	}
}

though this is bad practise you should have a public variable in the class you can access.

I will expierement with this, thank you!

[vorticalbox]

51 minutes ago, DriedSponge said:

I will expierement with this, thank you!

again mutable exports are not advised.

[DriedSponge]

1 minute ago, vorticalbox said:

again mutable exports are not advised.

Noted 

[colonel_mortis]

You can also make this a public static field on the class, which would be a more idiomatic way to do this I believe

export class Test {
    public static myVar: string = "asdf";
}

It's possible, although generally bad practice, to assign to that from the constructor.

 

You can then use it as

import {Test} from "./test"

Test.myVar // asdf

 

If you want to have a different value per instance of the class, or are able to access it from an instance of the class rather than the class itself, you would not make it static:

export class Test {
    public myVar: string;
    constructor() {
        myVar = "asdf";
    }
}

let test = new Test();
test.myVar; // asdf