Using aws-sdk with angular2

Question

I'm trying to get my Angular2 app to allow me to read and write to an s3 bucket on my AWS account.

In AngularJS (and most other things) we used the aws-sdk so I'm assuming that the same thing will be able to be done for Angular2 also.

The problem I'm having though is getting the aws-sdk to import correctly into my project.

I've installed it via npm install aws-sdk

I've tried to import it using

import * as AWS from 'aws-sdk/dist/aws-sdk',
import * as AWS from 'aws-sdk',
import AWS from 'aws-sdk'
import AWS from 'aws-sdk/dist/aws-sdk'

but it keeps telling me that the module doesn't exist.

My project is based off the angular2-seed.

I also tried to install the typings file from DefinitleyTyped using typings install aws-sdk but that failed also.

I'm not sure about if I need to add anything else in order for it to work or not.

Also, I'm using typescript

Thanks for your time and assistance.

Answer 1

But it keeps telling me that the module doesn't exist.

Update TypeScript and aws-sdk to latest. In your tsconfig make sure you have moduleResolution: node. Now you can simply do:

import * as AWS from 'aws-sdk';