Using lodash method categories

[alisabzevari]

TypeScript Version: nightly (2.1.0-dev.20161017)

I wanted to use lodash method categories. Here is the code I wrote:

import assign from "lodash/assign";
var myVar = assign({}, {foo:"foo"}, {bar:"bar"});

Expected compiled result:

"use strict"
const assign_1 = require("lodash/assign");
var myVar = assign_1({}, {foo:"foo"}, {bar:"bar"});

Actual compiled result:

"use strict"
const assign_1 = require("lodash/assign");
var myVar = assign_1.default({}, {foo:"foo"}, {bar:"bar"});

Some notes:

• I am using @types/lodash and the definition of assign is:

declare module "lodash/assign" {
   const assign: typeof _.assign;
   export = assign;
}

• I found out if I remove allowSyntheticDefaultImports and change import * as assign from "lodash/assign";, it will work.

[aluanhaddad]

That is what allowSyntheticDefaultImports is designed to do, model the behavior of loaders or transpilers that ease the consumption of commonjs modules from ES6 modules by mapping export = x that is module.exports = to export default x.

[alisabzevari]

@aluanhaddad Yes, exactly. But when you have this switch, the code would not compile correctly.

[RyanCavanaugh]

import assign from "lodash/assign";

This is unambiguously an import of the default member of the module.

Regarding using import * as with a function, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39415661/why-cant-i-import-a-class-or-function-with-import-as-x-from-y

[alisabzevari]

@RyanCavanaugh Thanks for reply. Maybe I am confused in module standard definitions but expected behaviour for me is that turning on the 'allowSyntheticDefaultImports' switch should enable me to work with non-standard way of importing a module. But it doesn't work on lodash!
Correct me if I am wrong.