Can't instantiate client in typescript: Only a void function can be called with the 'new' keyword

Version: 3.19.2

Code Snippet

import * as TwilioApi from 'twilio';
const twilio = new TwilioApi('sid', 'secret');

Exception/Log

Typescript error: Only a void function can be called with the 'new' keyword 

If you don’t use new keyword, the constructor doesn’t get called and there’s a different error. I’m just going to use the REST Api directly, but this was certainly annoying/disappointing. I’d normally just ignore it, but I’m using Google Cloud functions, and don’t want to turn off their TS based safety feature, which prevents code that throws errors from deploying.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Use typescript with twilio-node
2. Try to instantiate a client
3. Breaks

[philnash]

I have been using the Twilio library (see this post on sending SMS messages with Twilio in TypeScript) like this:

import { Twilio } from "twilio";
const client = new Twilio(accountSid, authToken);

This picks out the actual Twilio API client.

[j0hnm4r5]

I too am getting this issue as of Feb 2021. This removes the error for me:

import Twilio from "twilio";

const client = new (Twilio as any)(
    process.env.TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID,
    process.env.TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN
);