Sometimes, we want to fix error TS2693: ‘Promise’ only refers to a type, but is being used as a value here with TypeScript.

In this article, we’ll look at how to fix error TS2693: ‘Promise’ only refers to a type, but is being used as a value here with TypeScript.

How to fix error TS2693: ‘Promise’ only refers to a type, but is being used as a value here with TypeScript?

To fix error TS2693: ‘Promise’ only refers to a type, but is being used as a value here with TypeScript, we install the @types/es-promise package.

To install it, we run

npm i --save-dev  @types/es6-promise

Then we use it by writing

import { Promise } from "es6-promise";

to import the Promise type.