using MomentJS with TypeScript - What type does moment() have?

Question

I am currently converting my project from ES5 to ES6, but I am running into an issue with MomentJS (version 2.18.1). The problem is that I have a few variables that

Answer 1

Did you tried importing moment without alias?

import moment from 'moment';

This worked for me. And typescript compiler won't complain about it.

const date = moment().format('YYYYMMDD');

Note that this requires a tsconfig update!

In the TSConfig you need to add the option allowSyntheticDefaultImports to allow default imports of libraries that have no default exports.

Example (tsconfig.json):

{
  "compileOnSave": false,
  "compilerOptions": {
    "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
  }
}