[question] Module '"aedes"' has no exported member 'Aedes'

[alexpaschoaletto]

Hi there, I'm attempting to run the provided examples (literally copy-paste) but having no success. I have installed version v1.0.0 with npm i aedes only to find this very basic error upon building:

error TS2305: Module '"aedes"' has no exported member 'Aedes'.

I have rolled back to version v0.51.3 and changed the basic example to use the old default import, and it worked. Node is v22.14. Is it something else I'm missing? sorry if the question is idiot, but I ran out of ideas and definitely checked if the package was installed.

[robertsLando]

Hi @alexpaschoaletto, thanks for reporting this!

The issue is that package.json has "exports": "./aedes.js" but doesn't include a types condition inside the exports field. When using TypeScript with moduleResolution set to "node16", "nodenext", or "bundler" (which are increasingly the recommended defaults), TypeScript resolves types through the exports field and ignores the top-level "types": "aedes.d.ts" entry — so it can't find the Aedes export.

Workaround — in your tsconfig.json, set:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "moduleResolution": "node"
  }
}

This makes TypeScript fall back to the top-level "types" field and the import will work.

A fix has been opened in #1081.

[alexpaschoaletto]

Hi @robertsLando, and thank you for the quick response!
I'll try it out as soon as I get back to the project. Keep up with the amazing work!

[robertsLando]

Just released 1.0.1 with the fix

[alexpaschoaletto]

Hi there! Just to let you know, it worked - however I had to change the compiler options to the following:

"compilerOptions": {
    "target": "ES2022",
    "module": "ESNext",
    "moduleResolution": "Bundler",     /* <---- when set to "nodenext" still didn't work */
    "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
    "esModuleInterop": true,
    "outDir": "./dist",
    "rootDir": "./src"
}

I'm no expert in typescript configuration, so the problem could be me altogether. But though it was best to report back.