How to import got in typescript?

Question

i'm trying to import got from 'got' in my typescript program to convert an url to a streamable file, but I tryed to import it in different ways and i obtaining always errors like : can only be default-imported using the 'esModuleInterop' flag

my question is how can I import got correctly without get errors ? Or is there another way to convert an url to a streamable file in typescript?

import { sha256 } from 'js-sha256';
import {Metadata} from './metadata';
import * as fs from 'fs'
const pinataSDK = require('@pinata/sdk');
import got from 'got';
export const ARC3_NAME_SUFFIX = "@arc3"
export const ARC3_URL_SUFFIX = "#arc3"
export const METADATA_FILE = "metadata.json"
export const JSON_TYPE = 'application/json'
export const JSONObject = "metadata.json"
export function asaURL(cid: string): string { return ipfsURL(cid)+ARC3_URL_SUFFIX }
export function ipfsURL(cid: string): string { return "ipfs://"+cid }

Answer 1

Add this option to your tsconfig.json file:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "esModuleInterop": true
  }
}

https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig#esModuleInterop

This is needed because CJS exports and MJS exports are out of box incompatible (because CJS has no notion of a default export, but MJS does).

Enabling this interop allows TS to import CJS dependencies into its modules.

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If people are still struggling with this, try using xnr to run your source code, I created it pretty much for this purpose as interop between TS, modules and npm packages can be pretty nasty and sometimes you want something that just works! :)

Answer 2

Had the same problem with Version got@^12.0.0.

Downgraded to [email protected] and it worked.