TypeScript ES dynamic `import()`

Question

While using the new TypeScript feature, so called ES Dynamic Imports, I am not able to run the code of my isomorphic app on the server side using ts-node.

It seems like the error does not occur when using the webpack module loader which transpiles the code in it's own way and running resulting files in a browser.

The error which I've got:

case 0: return [4 /*yield*/, import("./component/main")];
                             ^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token import

Usually TypeScript transpiles the import expression to something like that: Promise.resolve(require("./component/main")), but I can't see it there.

How to fix that? Does it have something common with ts-node? Or there is a "polyfill" for node.js?

My tsconfig.json file:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "declaration": false,
    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
    "allowJs": false,
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "importHelpers": true,
    "inlineSourceMap": false,
    "inlineSources": false,
    "lib": [
      "DOM",
      "ES5",
      "ES6",
      "ES7"
    ],
    "listFiles": false,
    "module": "commonjs",
    "noEmitOnError": true,
    "noImplicitAny": true,
    "noImplicitReturns": true,
    "noImplicitThis": true,
    "preserveConstEnums": false,
    "pretty": false,
    "removeComments": false,
    "strict": true,
    "target": "es5"
  }
}

the code:

import * as m from "mithril";

import LayoutComponent from "./component/layout";

const render = (
    layout: m.ComponentTypes<any, any>,
) => ({ tag, attrs }: m.Vnode<any, any>) => m(layout, attrs, m(tag as any, attrs));

export default {
    "/:path...": {
        onmatch: async (args, path) => (await import("./component/main")).default,
        render: render(LayoutComponent),
    },
} as m.RouteDefs;

Answer 1

This is a bug in the Typescript Compiler which will be fixed in 2.5.

Exporting a default object with a function that imports a file will not compile the import statement into a require statement in Typescript 2.4.x.

For example, while this:

export const sudo = { run() { return import('./test3'); } }

Will compile to this:

exports.sudo = { run: function () { return Promise.resolve().then(function () { return require('./test3'); }); } };

This:

export default { run() { return import('./test3'); } }

Compiles into this:

exports.default = { run: function () { return import('./test3'); } };

Which is obviously wrong. A temporary solution would be this:

export const sudo = { run() { return import('./test3'); } }

export default sudo;

Which compiles (correctly) into this:

exports.sudo = { run: function () { return Promise.resolve().then(function () { return require('./test3'); }); } };
exports.default = exports.sudo;