Typescript, Typings and require

When you use typings and Typescript, you can use ES6 imports (rather than require). For instance, you would do this:

import * as React from 'react';

interface IMessage {
  msg: String;
}

class TestApp extends React.Component {
  public render(): Element {
    return 
test
;
  }
}

To get React to be available, you would first need to install it:

typings install react --ambient --save

You also need a tsconfig.json to list the files you want to import. Importing the main.d.ts auto imports everything you’ve installed:

{
    "compilerOptions": {
    "module": "commonjs",
    "target": "es5",
    "jsx": "react",
    "sourceMap": true,
    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "outDir": "dist"
    },
    "exclude": [
        "node_modules",
    "dist",
    "node_modules",
    "typings"
    ],
    "files": [
      "./app/index.tsx",
      "./typings/main.d.ts"
    ]
}