Cannot find module '.' or its corresponding type declarations

when I use cheerio in my project with typescript, and try to compile it by tsc. The compiler throws an exception described below:

error TS2307: Cannot find module '.' or its corresponding type declarations.

2 import type { CheerioAPI, Cheerio } from '.'; 

Found 1 error in node_modules/cheerio/lib/esm/static.d.ts:2

This seems to be a bug in the package itself. How should I solve this problem? Thanks.

And I only use cheerio in my project like this:

import * as cheerio from "cheerio";
cheerio.load(content) // The type of content is string.

“cheerio”: “^1.0.0-rc.12” “@types/cheerio”: “^0.22.31” node v16.16.0 npm v8.16.0

[manuth]

As a workaround, I recommend you to add the following to your tsconfig.jsons compilerOptions:

{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "paths": {
            "cheerio": [
                "./node_modules/cheerio/lib/index.d.ts"
            ]
        }
    }
}

This will use cheerios cjs types instead of the esm types. The type declarations look exactly the same so it fits as a workaround replacement perfectly well.

[fb55]

Thanks for sending this by — the import should be updated to conform with ESM. I will make sure this is covered in the next release.