I just migrated a largish project from Babel to TypeScript. This was the bulk of the changes, i.e. going from import React from "react" to import * as React from "react".

I know that babel definitely did a bad thing by allowing people to use export = as the default import http://stackoverflow.com/a/37152481/390330

however we already support type checking for that with allowSyntheticImports. Why not add the transpile for that as well. Reason being that a lot of JS code is being (even if wrongly) written in import fs from "fs" style (e.g webpack docs : https://gist.github.com/sokra/27b24881210b56bbaff7) and getting to all these people and telling them to stop doing it is no longer a possibility, so if we want a simpler 1-1 JS thats out there to TS migration this would greatly help

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PS : I did a video with allowJs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmKXXI_ck7w Love you guys ❤️