Can't import {Buffer} from 'buffer', same with EventEmitter/events

[josephsavona]

Flow (tested with 43 and 42) rejects the following line, claiming that buffer does not have an export named Buffer:

import {Buffer} from 'buffer';

It allows import Buffer from 'buffer', except that this doesn't work: 'buffer' doesn't export a default value, so that throws when compiling ES6 imports to require statements e.g. with Babel.

The same is true for import {EventEmitter} from 'events', which works but is rejected by Flow.

The use case I'm trying to solve is explicitly Buffer/EventEmitter so that I can produce node builds (using the actual node modules) and browser builds (rewriting those imports to 'buffer/' and 'events/') that require browser polyfills for them.

[gre]

this is still not fixed?

despite the PR that was supposed to support Buffer, I'm having it uncovered:

tried both require() and import syntaxes

[Brianzchen]

@gre this was fixed to a degree. There's no flow error anymore because Buffer is defined in buffer but it's just not typed properly so it defaults to any.

I think in general this issue is resolved. Though looking at the definition, I don't know why it was defined as Buffer: typeof global.Buffer instead of Buffer: Buffer which may make it more useful

[SamChou19815]

The libdef has been moved to flow-typed. If you want to make improvements, please make PR over there.