What's the recommended way to import and use the TypeScript types?

[Nathan]

I'm currently doing:

import type currency from "currency.js";
import Currency from "currency.js"

Do I need to import type, or is there an alternative way to do it? I tried function f(arg: typeof currency)`, but that doesn't seem to work.

Do I just need to accept the currency object having a different name than the interface? I haven't seen many libraries use this kind of pattern (with two interfaces under the currency namespace in the module definition, and an interface named currency at the top-level of the module) so I'm not sure what the right way is to use them. Thanks!

[Larry C. Dennison]

Not sure if this fits your needs, but it works for me using an alias:

import currency, { default as Currency } from 'currency.js';

The type setup of this library is indeed abnormal to most others.

[Nathan]

Huh, I think I was just doing something wrong earlier, not sure what it was. Now, when I do import currency from "currency.js I'm able to use currency both as the type, and use a static apply on it to construct a currency object. It also appears that new currency(5) works as well.

Not sure what behavior I was seeing before, closing.