Wait.. Are you talking about what's described here: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/2242 https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/2242 I

Wait.. Are you talking about what's described here: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/2242 https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/2242 I just did a small typescript prototype and used the import syntax there. It might have been your typescript version as 1.5 recently came out (and I was using the 1.5 beta 2). The hardest part is what you described at the start. If it doesn't have a type definition it's hard. DefinitelyTyped helps a lot (https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/tsd https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/tsd) I had to create a type definition for something that wasn't there. It was annoying because I had to make the equivalent of a header file before I could use a library.