Module imports are problematic in TypeScript

[morungos]

I think it's deeply hidden inside: https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig/#esModuleInterop

When you use:

import removeMarkdown from 'markdown-to-text';

The value removeMarkdown is actually { default: [Function: removeMarkdown] } (not matching the types), It's not easy to work around this, because import { default as.... also doesn't work, oddly still getting the value { default: [Function: removeMarkdown] }. I'm using TypeScript 5.0.0.

I'm way out of my depth here, because I though since both my package and yours are both using esModuleInterop: true we'd be home free, but then I did read: microsoft/TypeScript#27293 (comment), which kind of suggests that targeting CJS might be the issue, maybe.

In any event, a huge win might simply be to also export as a named removeMarkdown, so:

import { removeMarkdown } from 'markdown-to-text';

also works. This is not at all uncommon.