TypeScript instructions don't work?

[ianstormtaylor]

Based on the TypeScript instructions getting AVA working with TypeScript at runtime should be just installing ts-node and typescript and then adding configuration:

"extensions": [
  "ts",
  "tsx"
],
"require": [
  "ts-node/register"
]

But this results in errors for the import syntax:

Uncaught exception in test/ava/test.ts

/Users/Storm/dev/ianstormtaylor/nucleus/test/ava/test.ts:1
import test from 'ava';
^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module

Might there need to be more done as part of the configuration that isn't documented?

[fregante]

Refer to #2593

[novemberborn]

@ianstormtaylor #2593 provides the solution, somebody just needs to turn it into a PR.

Alternatively if you want to avoid ts-node, avajs/typescript#5 is about updating our TypeScript provider to support ESM.