Firebase-admin-node: Typescript (tsc) firebase-admin has no default export

[reyou]

firebase --version
3.18.4

"firebase-admin": "^5.12.0",
"firebase-functions": "^1.0.2",
"firebase-tools": "^3.18.4",

tsc --version
Version 2.8.3

In my firebase project I have a file with following import;

file.ts

import admin from "firebase-admin";
// rest of the code

Once I run tsc I am getting following error:

• Starting compilation in watch mode...
  functions/file.ts(1,8): error TS1192: Module '"/node_modules/firebase-admin/lib/index"' has no default export.

Is there any way to avoid the error?

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[reyou]

OK I had to use

import * as admin from "firebase-admin";

as mentioned at https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/3337