Public property X of exported class has or is using name 'Observable' from external module "/rxjs/internal/Observable" but cannot be named

Question

I've implemented service for sharing the data between compoments:

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { BehaviorSubject } from 'rxjs';

@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root'
})
export class DataService {
  private dataSource = new BehaviorSubject(Object);
  public currentData = this.dataSource.asObservable();

  constructor() {}

  changeData(data) {
    this.dataSource.next(data);
  }
}

Everything was working fine, until I've tried to build the project. Then I've got this error:

error TS4029: Public property 'currentData' of exported class has or is using name 'Observable' from external module "/rxjs/internal/Observable" but cannot be named.

Answer 1

After some investigation I've realized that I'm using property which refers to the Observable, but it cannot be found. To fix it I need to simply add missing Observable import and typing into the currentData variable:

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { BehaviorSubject, Observable } from 'rxjs';

@Injectable({
  providedIn: 'root'
})
export class DataService {
  private dataSource = new BehaviorSubject(Object);
  public currentData: Observable<Object> = this.dataSource.asObservable();

  constructor() {}

  changeData(data) {
    this.dataSource.next(data);
  }
}

However error only appeared when I've converted the project into the lib.

Answer 2

In my case the error was for Ionify library in angular and the bellow code causes error in angular library compilation:

import icSettings from '@iconify/icons-ic/twotone-settings';
...
@Component({
   ....
})
export class ConfigPanelToggleComponent implements OnInit {

  icSettings = icSettings; // This causes error

}

Solution is use any type since the @iconify library do not export the type needed.

import icSettings from '@iconify/icons-ic/twotone-settings';
...
@Component({
   ....
})
export class ConfigPanelToggleComponent implements OnInit {

  icSettings: any = icSettings; // No error

}