Import assignment cannot be used when targeting ECMAScript 2015 modules

Question

I\'m trying to use the follwing line:

import Clipboard = require(\'clipboard\');

and I get the following error:

   [default] c:         


        

Answer 1

I had the same problem after updating my vsCode.

just replace with "module": "es5"

to "module": "commonjs" in tsconfig.app.json