Ionic 2 Importing Providers - Cannot find name

[SigmundFroyd]

If I had to guess, the lack of an underline on the invalid import would be because of this:

[Solved] New Project: Invalid imports are replaced with "any"

If anyone else hits this, it is because of the wildcard module declaration that is in the new starter project. I didn’t see it there. declare module '*'; Just remove it. I understand the logic behind putting it there, so you can use 3rd party libs without type declarations, but it inadvertently cripples a lot of the safety of having the typescript compiler for most cases. I could quite easily make a simple spelling mistake on an import and not know it until I get a runtime error that my varia…

In my experience this will indeed cause all imports to be considered valid. Until it actually runs, of course.