How to get support of generators in typescript without setting target to ES6?

Question

Got a situation here. I use nodejs with --harmony flag to get support of generators. Next i'm trying to switch my project to TypeScript and get a problem: in "target":"ES6" mode it transpiles import commands as is (instead of require).

And node with --harmony flag doesn't support that:

import * as fs from 'fs';
^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected reserved word

Transpiling option "module":"commonjs isn't allowed with "target":"ES6".

Have anyone solved this problem without using any external require/import utilities?

Another side of the problem is that TypeScript transpiles var fs = require('fs'); into import * as fs from 'fs'; on it's own. So, no way to avoid import commands. — Ivan Pesochenko

Ivan Pesochenko Ivan Pesochenko · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-13T12:45:27

These settings have worked for me:

tsconfig.json

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target":"ES6",
    "moduleResolution": "classic",
  }
}

ES6 support for generators
No import stuff transpiling due to "moduleResolution": "classic"

And so the problem's gone!

How to get support of generators in typescript without setting target to ES6?

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