typescript: error TS2693: 'Promise' only refers to a type, but is being used as a value here

I am trying to use Typescript for my AWS Lambda and i am getting the following errors where ever I use promises.

error TS2693: 'Promise' only refers to a type, but is being used as a value here.

I tried using the following variations in the code

Using the Promise constructor

responsePromise = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
                    return reject(new Error(`missing is needed data`))
                })

using Promise.reject

responsePromise = Promise.reject(new Error(`Unsupported method "${request.httpMethod}"`));

Versions

Following are the versions in my dev dependencies:

"typescript": "^2.2.2"
"@types/aws-lambda": "0.0.9",
"@types/core-js": "^0.9.40",
"@types/node": "^7.0.12",

Contents of tsconfig.json

{
    "compileOnSave": true,
    "compilerOptions": {
        "module": "commonjs",
        // "typeRoots" : ["./typings", "./node_modules/@types"],
        "target": "es5",
        // "types" : [ "core-js" ],
        "noImplicitAny": true,
        "strictNullChecks": true,
        "allowJs": true,
        "noEmit": true,
        "alwaysStrict": true,
        "preserveConstEnums": true,
        "sourceMap": true,
        "outDir": "dist",
        "moduleResolution": "Node",
        "declaration": true,
        "lib": [
            "es6"
        ]
    },
    "include": [
        "index.ts",
        "lib/**/*.ts"
    ],
    "exclude": [
        "node_modules",
        "**/*.spec.ts"
    ]
}

I am using grunt-ts with the following configuration for running ts task.

ts: {
            app: {
                tsconfig: {
                    tsconfig: "./tsconfig.json",
                    ignoreSettings: true
                }
            },
...

I tried with the solution mentioned in I get: [ts] 'Promise' only refers to a type, but is being used as a value here but no luck.

Solution 1:

I had the same issue with the aws-sdk and I solved it by using "target": "es2015". This is my tsconfig.json file.

{
    "compilerOptions": {
        "outDir": "./dist/",
        "sourceMap": false,
        "noImplicitAny": false,
        "module": "commonjs",
        "target": "es2015"
    },
    "include": [
        "src/**/*"
    ],
    "exclude": [
        "node_modules",
        "**/*.spec.ts"
    ]
}

Solution 2:

Encounter the same error today and solved it with:

npm i --save-dev  @types/es6-promise

Update:

add:

import {Promise} from 'es6-promise'

Solution 3:

I solved this by adding below code to tsconfig.json file.

"lib": [
    "ES5",
    "ES2015",
    "DOM",
    "ScriptHost"]

Solution 4:

Solved by changing the target in compilerOptions.

{
"compilerOptions": {
    "module": "es2015",
    "target": "es2015",
    "lib": [
        "es2016",
        "dom"
    ],
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "noImplicitAny": false,
    "sourceMap": false,
    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "outDir": "./public/js/app"
},
"exclude": [
    "node_modules",
    "public/js",
    "assets/app/polyfills.ts"
],
"angularCompilerOptions": {
    "skipMetadataEmit": true
}
}

Solution 5:

Here is my tip. Tested with vscode 1.21.1 (on MAC)

Put below config to tsconfig.json

"lib": [
"es2016",
"dom"
]

into compilerOptions

Restart IDE (this action is required :D )