How does interfaces with construct signatures work?

On my search for the exact same question I went looking how the TypeScript-Team did that...

They are declaring an interface and afterwards a variable with a name matching exactly the interface-name. This is also the way to type static functions.

Example from lib.d.ts:

interface Object {
    toString(): string;
    toLocaleString(): string;
    // ... rest ...
}
declare var Object: {
    new (value?: any): Object;
    (): any;
    (value: any): any;
    // ... rest ...
}

I tried that and it works like charm.

Construct signatures in interfaces are not implementable in classes; they're only for defining existing JS APIs that define a 'new'-able function. Here's an example involving interfaces new signatures that does work:

interface ComesFromString {
    name: string;
}

interface StringConstructable {
    new(n: string): ComesFromString;
}

class MadeFromString implements ComesFromString {
    constructor (public name: string) {
        console.log('ctor invoked');
    }
}

function makeObj(n: StringConstructable) {
    return new n('hello!');
}

console.log(makeObj(MadeFromString).name);

This creates an actual constraint for what you can invoke makeObj with:

class Other implements ComesFromString {
    constructor (public name: string, count: number) {
    }
}

makeObj(Other); // Error! Other's constructor doesn't match StringConstructable