Was trying to use lodash and couldn’t seem to get Visual Code to build my TypeScript files correctly, so here’s how to get it working…

Add the following esModuleInterop to your tsconfig.json

{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "target": "es5",
        "module": "commonjs",
        "esModuleInterop": true,
        "sourceMap": true
    }
}

and then you can use

import _ from "lodash";

Otherwise you can use the following if esModuleInterop doesn’t exist or is set to false

import * as _ from "lodash";