Import assignment cannot be used when targeting ECMAScript 2015 modules

Question

I\'m trying to use the follwing line:

import Clipboard = require(\'clipboard\');

and I get the following error:

   [default] c:         


        

Answer 1

I was facing the same issue as you.

In the tsconfig.json file I replaced:

"module": "es6"

with

"module": "commonjs"

and restarted the terminal. It worked.