Question:

I'm getting this error:

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TS7016: Could not find a declaration file for module 'faker/locale/en_CA'. '.../myproject/node_modules/faker/locale/en_CA.js' implicitly has an 'any' type.

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With this code:

import * as faker from 'faker/locale/en_CA';

The thing is, I installed @types/faker, and I can see that node_modules/@types/faker/index.d.ts does in fact include:

declare module "faker/locale/en_CA" { export = fakerStatic; }

So the module <em>has</em> been declared, but TS can't find it for some reason.

Here's my tsconfig:

{ "compilerOptions": { "strict": true, "importHelpers": false, "inlineSources": true, "noEmitOnError": true, "pretty": true, "module": "commonjs", "noImplicitAny": true, "suppressImplicitAnyIndexErrors": true, "removeComments": true, "preserveConstEnums": false, "sourceMap": true, "lib": ["es2017","esnext.asynciterable"], "skipLibCheck": true, "outDir": "dist", "target": "es2018", "declaration": true, "types" : ["node"], "resolveJsonModule": true, "esModuleInterop": false, "baseUrl": ".", "paths": { "*": ["types/*"] } }, "files": [ "src/main" ], "exclude": [ "node_modules" ] }

Am I missing something?

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Note that

import * as faker from 'faker';

Works perfectly fine.

Both VSCode and PhpStorm can find 'faker/locale/en_CA' no problemo, it's just tsc that can't.

Try removing "types" : ["node"] from tsconfig.json. According to <a href="https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/tsconfig-json.html#types-typeroots-and-types" rel="nofollow">the documentation</a>, that line is saying you don't want TypeScript to load types for any package other than node.