I'm trying to get started with Typescript for Electron development. After wrestling with getting typing for node and jQuery, I finally got my .ts file error free.

The problem is now that when I run my app, I get this error:

index.js:2 Uncaught ReferenceError: exports is not defined

These are the first two lines in index.js:

"use strict";

Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true });

I don't know that that line does. Typescript added it when compiling. My app works fine if I remove it.

How do I get rid of this error?

Oh and here's my tsconfig, if that's relevant.

{

    "compilerOptions": {

        "target": "es6",

        "module": "commonjs",

        "moduleResolution": "node",

        "isolatedModules": false,

        "jsx": "react",

        "experimentalDecorators": true,

        "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,

        "declaration": false,

        "noImplicitAny": false,

        "noImplicitUseStrict": false,

        "removeComments": true,

        "noLib": false,

        "preserveConstEnums": true,

        "suppressImplicitAnyIndexErrors": true

    },

    "exclude": [

        "node_modules",

        "typings/browser",

        "typings/browser.d.ts"

    ],

    "compileOnSave": true,

    "buildOnSave": false,

    "atom": {

        "rewriteTsconfig": false

    }

}