What to do for missing export = when it's TypeScript's fault (kinda)

[benasher44]

ajv is an example of a package that uses TypeScript, but the generated .d.ts by TypeScript suffers from the missing export = issue (extra .default is needed when imported with NodeNext).

As a workaround, I'm opening a PR to their library to explicitly export the Ajv class, but I wasn't able to figure out the settings needed to get TypeScript to generate a better .d.ts. It would be great to update the docs to cover that case.

[benasher44]

Actually I see you commented on that issue. I have some follow up questions. I'll follow up on that ticket.

[andrewbranch]

The source of the issue there, as far as declaration file correctness goes, is that the TS contains some direct module.exports manipulation, which the type system / TS module system doesn’t track.