Cannot import the body-parser module in typesript

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I don't quite understand the error message:

Error TS1259 (TS) Module '"D:/CloudStorage/..../node_modules/@types/body-parser/index"' can only be default-imported using the 'esModuleInterop' flag

I don't quite understand how to resolve the error

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 14 '21 at 01:14

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You can try installing typescript library for body-parser:

npm i @types/body-parser

answered May 14 '21 at 01:14

Yashwant Rautela

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 14 '21 at 01:24

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That should do it

import * as bodyParser from "body-parser"

answered May 14 '21 at 01:24

Kabeer Jaffri

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im not sure but. because body-parser does not have a ES default export. so we import all of the exported functions as default. refer to this post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/31387018/12067977 – Kabeer Jaffri May 14 '21 at 01:28

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered May 14 '21 at 01:20

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fixed it -

import bodyParser = require('body-parser');

solved it, any ideas why this worked?

answered May 14 '21 at 01:20

Indrajeet Haldar

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no. and also this is syntactically incorrect – Kabeer Jaffri May 14 '21 at 01:30
Okay .. but it clearly does work so what exactly is happening here? – Indrajeet Haldar May 15 '21 at 02:31

Cannot import the body-parser module in typesript

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