fix(ts): workaround for allowSyntheticDefaultImports

this makes it not mandatory anymore to setup allowSyntheticDefaultImports in your tsconfig, when using the i18n plugin

resolves #236

build/tasks/build.js

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ var gulpIgnore = require('gulp-ignore');
 var merge = require('merge2');
 var jsName = paths.packageName + '.js';
 var compileToModules = ['es2015', 'commonjs', 'amd', 'system', 'native-modules'];
+var replace = require("gulp-replace");
 
 function cleanGeneratedCode() {
   return through2.obj(function(file, enc, callback) {
@@ -64,6 +65,7 @@ gulp.task('build-index', function() {
 
 gulp.task('build-es2015-temp', function () {
     return gulp.src(paths.output + jsName)
+      .pipe(replace('import i18next from', 'import * as i18next from')) // Replace babel cjs import syntax with TS cjs import syntax
       .pipe(to5(assign({}, compilerOptions.commonjs())))
       .pipe(gulp.dest(paths.output + 'temp'));
 });

dist/aurelia-i18n.d.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import * as LogManager from 'aurelia-logging';
-import i18next from 'i18next';
+import * as i18next from 'i18next';
 import {
   resolver
 } from 'aurelia-dependency-injection';
@@ -85,8 +85,6 @@ export declare class Backend {
   readMulti(languages?: any, namespaces?: any, callback?: any): any;
   read(language?: any, namespace?: any, callback?: any): any;
   loadUrl(url?: any, callback?: any): any;
-
-  /* no retry */
   create(languages?: any, namespace?: any, key?: any, fallbackValue?: any): any;
 }
 export declare class BaseI18N {

package.json

@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@
     "gulp-ignore": "^2.0.1",
     "gulp-insert": "^0.5.0",
     "gulp-rename": "^1.2.2",
+    "gulp-replace": "^0.6.1",
     "gulp-typedoc": "^2.0.0",
     "gulp-typedoc-extractor": "0.0.8",
     "gulp-typescript": "^2.13.6",

src/customTypings/i18next.d.ts

@@ -121,5 +121,5 @@ declare namespace I18next {
 declare module 'i18next' {
     var i18next:I18next.I18n;
 
-    export default i18next;
-}
+    export = i18next;
+}