I'm using jspm and have installed a package. I have checked that the package.json defines 'main' and 'typings' since i have installed typescript 1.6 i expected to be able to import the typings at design time and the javascript at runtime per https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Typings-for-npm-packages
what is strange is this does not work. I get cannot find the module 'theModule'
import {x,y,z} from 'theModule';
but if i do a relative path it works fine
import {x,y,z} from '../jspm_packages/github/blah/blah/dist/theModule';
I have tried everything i can think of but i just cant seem to get this to work. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?
New module resolution in tsc 1.6 assumes that the definition is in node_modules folder - that is not your case.
Therefore you need to make a hint where tsc should look for definition of the module.
The easiest way how to reference the d.ts which defines global module and then use it.
/// <reference path="../jspm_packages/github/blah/blah/dist/theModule.d.ts" />
import {x,y,z} from 'theModule';
As @DeanB_Develop mentioned in real projects use tsconfig and tsd.