Typescript types don't import correctly when using ESM

[JstnMcBrd]

I recently migrated one of my projects from JavaScript to TypeScript, and then from CommonJS to EMCAScript modules (ESM).

While you have added types to cleverbot-free, they do not work correctly when using ESM.

Here is an example of the error I am getting.

As you can see, the type of cleverbot is not being imported correctly.

I did some research, and found some relevant threads here and here.

It appears that the problem may be fixed by adding "type": "module" to package.json so the types can be interpreted as ESM types.

I modified cleverbot-free's package.json in the node_modules of my project, and it fixed the issue.

As you can see, the type is now being imported correctly and TypeScript can compile.

Alternatively, you could also fix the problem by changing export default cleverbot to export = cleverbot in index.d.ts, but that might not be backwards-compatible to pre-node16 ESM versions? Not sure.

Here is an additional resource: https://arethetypeswrong.github.io/?p=cleverbot-free%401.1.12

[IntriguingTiles]

Resolved via the latter solution in v1.1.13.