I can only require a module using .require() - is there an alternative?

Question

I have made this npm package: https://github.com/subgeniuscorp/secret-helper

I export an object from the main index.ts file like so:

export default {
  generateSalt,
  createHash,
  generateApiKey,
  validateHash,
  generateRandomString,
}

Here's what my tsconfig.json looks like:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "es6",
    "module": "commonjs",
    "declaration": true,
    "declarationMap": true,
    "outDir": "./lib",
    "strict": true,
    "moduleResolution": "Node",
    "esModuleInterop": true
  },
  "include": [
    "src"
  ],
  "exclude": [
    "node_modules",
    "test"
  ]
}

Now when I try to use this package in my node project (i.e. not a typescript project), I can only do this like so:

const sh = require("@subgeniuscorp/secret-helper").default;

Is there something I'm doing wrong? Is there anything I can do to require this project without the .default bit? I'm trying to understand if I'm doing something wrong, or if this is how these two modules interact.

Answer 1

What you are looking for is named export

export {
 generateSalt,
  createHash,
  generateApiKey,
  validateHash,
  generateRandomString,
}

then you can import it like this using require

const sh = require("@subgeniuscorp/secret-helper")

with import

import * as sh from "@subgeniuscorp/secret-helper"

or import using allowSyntheticDefaultImports flag

import sh from "@subgeniuscorp/secret-helper"