Why do you use this import syntax in TypeScript?

[fairydhwen]

Why do you use :
import * as bodyParser from 'body-parser'; and not import { * } from './....'; syntax ?
Also i dont understand why no export class ?

It looks like it's just a JS to TS transpilation.

[MarkPieszak]

When you're doing something like that it's because it's a commonJS module, and isn't export'ing things itself, so you need to just pull down the whole thing.

It's the TS equivalent of var bodyParser = require('body-parser');