How to define `type` for `Electron` in typescript?

Question

When I write below code in Electron in TypeScript,

const { app, BrowserWindow } = require("electron");

let mainWindow: Electron.BrowserWindow;

I got this error: Cannot find namespace 'Electron'. .

I seems there is not namespace defined for the type Electron . I wonder where I can load this type definition. I have added these dependencies on my project:

"electron": "^5.0.2",

Answer 1

No need to prefix your usage of BrowserWindow . You've already got the type imported, just use it directly.

import { BrowserWindow } from "electron";

let mainWindow: BrowserWindow;

Additionally, you don't need a separate @types/electron package for electron. The electron package is already typed.