Importing Victor.js in TypeScript?

Question

I\'m trying to use the victor.js library in a TypeScript project (3.0.1) and I\'m having real heartache trying to import and use it. I\'ve installed it from npm along with it\'s

Answer 1

I see there has already been excellent answers but would like to add this shorter answer.

Error message: This module can only be referenced with ECMAScript imports/exports by turning on the 'esModuleInterop' flag and referencing its default export.ts(2497)

I had this problem with importing when moving from es5 to es6 (and javascript to typescript) when converting my own javascript file to typescript.

Importing like import * as File from "./MyFile" in OtherFile.ts .

In MyFile.ts file I had export = {funcName} at the end.

The solution was to remove = like this export {funcName} from the MyFile.ts file.

(Hope this helps someone, first time trying to make an answer for a an error/problem)