typescript: error TS2693: 'Promise' only refers to a type, but is being used as a value here

Question

I am trying to use Typescript for my AWS Lambda and i am getting the following errors where ever I use promises.

error TS2693: \'Promise\' only refers to a type,          


        

Answer 1

Here is my tip. Tested with vscode 1.21.1 (on MAC)

Put below config to tsconfig.json

"lib": [
"es2016",
"dom"
]

into compilerOptions

Restart IDE (this action is required :D )