Nodejs-storage: Can't import Storage from @google-cloud/storage

[Steven4294]

Environment details

• Node.js version: 8.9.0
• npm version: 5.5.1
• @google-cloud/storage version: ^2.1.0

Steps to reproduce

I am just trying to setup GCS in a cloud code function. I am using typescript. However when I try to import { Storage } from '@google-cloud/storage'; i get an error that node_modules/@types/google-cloud__storage/index"' has no exported member 'Storage'.

If i try, import * as Storage from '@google-cloud/storage'; I get an error TypeError: Storage is not a constructor. Here is my dependency file and then my index.js.

   // in package.json
  "dependencies": {
    "@google-cloud/storage": "^2.1.0",
    "@types/google-cloud__storage": "^1.7.2",
    "firebase-admin": "~6.0.0",
    "firebase-functions": "^2.0.3",
    "fs-extra": "^7.0.0",
    "sharp": "^0.21.0"
  }

  // index.ts

import * as functions from 'firebase-functions';
import * as Storage from '@google-cloud/storage';

const projectId = 'xxxx';

const storage = new Storage({
 projectId: projectId,
});

[Steven4294]

It seems that the correct way to import it is
import * as Storage from '@google-cloud/storage'
However, i'm getting the error that Storage is not a constructor. Am i missing something very obvious here?

[jkwlui]

Hi 👋 Thanks for filing an issue with us.

We've temporarily disabled types on nodejs-storage because we currently have some incomplete types and it was causing issues to people that uses TypeScript. That's why the import { Storage } from '@google-cloud/storage'; doesn't work currently.

For now, please use

import * as storage from '@google-cloud/storage';

const client = new storage.Storage();

We're sorry that this is causing problems on your end, we are working to get types working.

[Steven4294]

thanks!

[mpmckenz]

import * as storage from "@google-cloud/storage";
Gets an error as well:
SyntaxError: Unexpected token *

Looks like google cloud storage doesn't work at all right now. That's not very reliable.. :/

[JustinBeckwith]

@mpmckenz are you writing TypeScript or JavaScript? For TypeScript that makes sense, for plain ol' JavaScript it would still just be const {Storage} = require('@google-cloud/storage');. Hope this helps!

[reduardo7]

import { Storage } from '@google-cloud/storage';

or

const { Storage } = require('@google-cloud/storage');

[mahsanamin]

Unfortunately, In Node 12 the above snippets did not work in the module approach, so use below!

import storagePackage from '@google-cloud/storage';
const { Storage } = storagePackage;
const storage = new Storage();