typescript: Cannot find module 'react'

As on version 2.4.* the responsible config entry of this error (in most of the cases) is:

"compilerOptions": {
          ...
          "moduleResolution": "node" <---------- this entry
          ...
}

For resolving the typescript "Cannot find module 'react'", which comes from eslint rules,

You need to install @types/react :

$ npm i -D @types/react

or

$ yarn add -D @types/react

And in your ".eslintrc" file add in extends array the react plugin:

...
extends: [
        'plugin:react/recommended',
        ...  
],

if you're not using typescript 2.1, you should upgrade to it. it looks like you're using a 2.x version from the @types you have there.

here is a working tsconfig.json file that i'm using right now:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "es6",
    "module": "commonjs",
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "noResolve": false,
    "noImplicitAny": false,
    "removeComments": true,
    "sourceMap": true,
    "allowJs": true,
    "jsx": "react"
  },
  "exclude": [
    "./node_modules/**/*"
  ]
}

it's been a couple days since i resolved the same issue you were having, but i think the key here is the "moduleResolution": "node" and "allowJs": true.

I had the same issue. You just need to install @types:

npm i -D @types/react