unable to load 3rd party library to aurelia cli - aurelia

Question

I'm trying to install jwt-decode to my aurelia cli application. I've npm installed the library and added it to my aurelia.json file:
"dependencies": [
... other deps
{
"name": "jwt-decode",
"path": "../node_modules/jwt-decode/lib",
"main": "index"
}
... other deps
]
When I run au build or au run everything compiles and I can see the the cli is tracing the jwt-decode package; however, when I try to include it in a file I get an error:
src/stores/auth/service.ts(4,24): error TS2307: Cannot find module 'jwt-decode'.
[22:13:04] gulp-notify: [Error running Gulp] Error: src/stores/auth/service.ts(4,24): error TS2307: Cannot find module 'jwt-decode'.
[22:13:04] TypeScript: 1 semantic error
[22:13:04] TypeScript: emit succeeded (with errors)
I've even tried adding it to the prepend property but it did not work. I'm also using typescript so I don't know if that could be causing an issue.

Answer 1

Your dependencies section in aurelia.json is correct.
This error is related to TypeScript: typing definition (.d.ts file) is missing for 'jwt-decode' package.
You can install it by typings install dt~jwt-decode --global --save
After that, import it as a global module: import * as jwt from 'jwt-decode';