React: TypeError: Cannot read property 'createElement' of undefined

[mynane]

TypeError: Cannot read property 'createElement' of undefined

[aweary]

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With that said, it sounds like you're not importing React

// you have to do this if you use JSX
import React from 'react'

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[Ali-zain-javed]

import * as React from 'react';

[delphin92]

import * as React from 'react';
works fine. But sometimes I want import some more, and it's sad that I can't write like this:
import React, { Component } from 'react';

[chrismcglynn]

I had the same problem TypeError: Cannot read property 'createElement' of undefined
Originally I had:
import { React, Fragment } from 'react';

This solved my issue:
import React, { Fragment } from 'react';

Just in case anyone else has this simple mistake... I believe VSCode auto formatted it this way when I introduced <Fragment>

[huangxiao233]

"esModuleInterop": true

[pepoandra]

adding "esModuleInterop": true to tsconfig.json + building with webpack + running the server solved the problem for me.