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

None of the up-voted answers here work for me. Here is a guaranteed and reasonable solution. Put this near the top of any code file that uses Promise...

declare const Promise: any;