tsc: ERROR <filename> Cannot find name 'module' after upgrading to 0.8.17

[michaelsanford]

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I have a woefully underspecified bug: in an angular 4 project, after upgrading from

"@types/node": "8.0.16"

to

"@types/node": "8.0.17"

I received a tsc (2.4.2) compile-time error:

ERROR <a-deeply-nested-component-file.ts> Cannot find name 'module'.

Why do I suspect @types/node?

• The error thrown seems completely unrelated to my actual code (at a location in an angular 4 @Component class decorator that had no changes since a previously-working build),
• Downgrading to 0.8.16 fixed the error with no code changes.
• This now-canonical SO question suggests that this error (albeit in a much older version) can be the result of not having @types/node installed at all.

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