Typescript error - Cannot find name 'require'

Question

I'm building an Ionic app in Angular/Typescript.

I'm using a library called emojiRegex and I'm a little uncertain how to use it.

I'm importing it like this:

import { emojiRegex } from 'emoji-regex';

and then according to the docs you have to require it?

So I'm doing:

let emojiRegex = require('emoji-regex');
if(emojiRegex().test(this.emoji)) {

which works, but I get a typescript error I'd like to remove..

I read you need to add to your `tsconfig.json:

"types": [
  "node"
],

and then run npm install @types/node --save-dev which I did, but it didn't work for me. I just get another error that states:

[10:39:24] typescript error Cannot find type definition file for 'node'.

So any ideas how I can do this? I feel like I'm missing something pretty simple.. Thanks!

seen this?? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43104114/cannot-find-name-require-after-upgrading-to-angular4 — Ashish Ranjan, Jun 08 '18 at 15:04
@AshishRanjan that did not work :/ i get that `Cannot find type definition file for 'node'` error — Simon, Jun 08 '18 at 15:07
@AshishRanjan that removed the `node` error but it still doesn't allow `require` — Simon, Jun 08 '18 at 15:15

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 08 '18 at 15:17

5

You should be able to import it as a const like so:

import * as emojiRegex from 'emoji-regex';

answered Jun 08 '18 at 15:17

Teddy Sterne

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