Import JSON file in node application with TypeScript

Question

I\'m really getting crazy because I can\'t find a solution for this. What I want to archive is to import a JSON file with a configuration into my TypeScript file. I\'ve lear

Answer 1

I've successfully used the following to import my package.json inside a CLI program (so I can re-use the version, license and description information in my help page).

declare module '*.json' {
  const foo: {
    name: string;
    version: string;
    author: string;
    license: string;
    description: string;
  };
  export = foo;
}

Alternatively, you can import other files containing interface descriptions etc., but you need to put the imports inside the module declaration, e.g.

declare module 'ormconfig.json' {
  import { Connection } from "typeorm";

  const foo: Connection[];
  export = foo;
}