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I am trying to use the default type from https://www.npmjs.com/package/@types/leaflet - so for example import type leaflet from 'leaflet' but it is not working for some reason, is there a way to use the default export type from a package?

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@types/leaflet

TypeScript definitions for leaflet. Latest version: 1.9.8, last published: 19 days ago. Start using @types/leaflet in your project by running npm i @types/leaflet. There are 283 other projects in the npm registry using @types/leaflet.

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I need this because sometimes I use the default export from the package - example leaflet.addTiles()...

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when I import the package it knows the types - but I also wrote functions in another file that accept leaflet as an arg so I need to type that param as Leaflet

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but there is no default Leaflet exported from the types package

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import type leaflet from '@types/leaflet' gets the error Cannot use namespace 'leaflet' as a type.ts(2709)

#How to import the default type from a package?