allowJs option with namespaces

<!-- BUGS: Please use this template. --> <!-- QUESTIONS: This is not a general support forum! Ask Qs at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/typescript --> <!-- SUGGESTIONS: See https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-wiki/blob/master/Writing-Good-Design-Proposals.md --> I am currently trying to put the compiler option "allowJs" to use. My goal is to convert an existing JavaScript application into TypeScript step by step. The application does not use (external) modules, so I'm converting the JavaScript namespaces into real TypeScript namespaces, but I'm running into "duplicate identifier" errors as outlined below. Shouldn't it be possible to combine TypeScript and JavaScript using the same namespace? Maybe I'm doing something wrong or this is not intended, but I expected this to work. **TypeScript Version:** 1.8.10 **Code** File 1: ``` ts namespace myapp { export var c1 = 5; } ``` File 2: ``` js var myapp; (function (myapp) { myapp.c2 = 4; })(myapp || (myapp = {})); ``` tsconfig.json ``` json { "compilerOptions": { "allowJs": true, "outFile": "dist/appBundle.js" } } ``` **Expected behavior:** Bundling the compiled code of file 1 and the code of file 2 without modifications into a single JavaScript file. **Actual behavior:** The compilation is done, but the compiler throws an error: "error TS2300: Duplicate identifier 'myapp'."