Error importing file from systemjs text plugin

[bnavetta]

When I try to import a text file like this with the SystemJS text loading plugin, I get a compilation error about being unable to resolve an external module.

import html from './app.html!text';

I manually enabled debug logging in the TypeScript plugin and saw this in the console:

TypeScript Cannot find external module './app.html!text'. (TS2307)

It works fine when I don't try to import as a variable (i.e. import from './app.html!text), but then I don't have access to the text.

[frankwallis]

Yes, there doesn't seem to be a way to get this past the TypeScript compiler when using import. You will be able to do it using var html = require('./app.html!text') but that is not ideal.

I thought that the allowNonTsExtensions compiler setting might solve this (see #19) but as you say when assigning the result of the import to a variable the compiler still throws this error. It may be worth raising an issue with TypeScript to find out if this is/can be supported.

[bnavetta]

I also tried TypeScript's amd-dependency directive, but that didn't seem to have any effect either.

[frankwallis]

This has already been raised here