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

In case you are using Angular CLI: I was able to compile my project after I had set the value of module to es2016 in the file src/tsconfig.app.json.