TypeScript import won't work

None of the three methods detailed in the readme worked for me when importing gimp on my TypeScript project when upgrading to jimp@0.8.0

I couldn’t even access the right type so at least I can force a cast to require(‘gimp’). The error I’m seeing in the suggested methods is that the type resolved to never.

I’m using typeScript 3.6.2 , and node 12.8.1. I also tried with all combinations of esModuleInterop and allowSyntheticDefaultImports as the readme mention but without luck. I feel competent with TypeScript and I really think you have something wrong with your type declarations. It would be awesome if you could just export the constructor type - in my case I need to cast the Jimp class, as in new Jimp(). Also, just an opinion, these type declarations are unnecessary complex I think. Any tip is most welcome, thanks. This is my tsconfig.json

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "es5",
    "module": "commonjs",
    "lib": ["esnext", "dom"], 
    "strict": true, 
    "esModuleInterop": true,
    // "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
    "sourceMap": true,
    "outDir": "./dist", 
    "rootDir": ".",
    "declaration": true
  },
  "include": ["src", "test"]
}

[crutchcorn]

This issue should be solved as-of 0.8.4. I’d love to see it closed.

Please keep in mind that, per the updated README, import * from Jimp and const Jimp = require('jimp') will not work as-expected. Please update to using import Jimp from 'jimp'

[crutchcorn]

Working on it more today and I think I have it fixed

That said, I am writing dts-lint tests (the same in DefinitelyTyped) to try to ensure to the best of my abilities it will work