Using Rollup for Angular 2's AoT compiler and importing Moment.js

I have finally managed to get rid of both errors. Indeed to avoid:

Cannot call a namespace ('moment')

You need to use:

import moment from 'moment'

Then to avoid

"moment" has no default export

You have to add into your tsconfig.json (compilerOptions):

"allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true

EDIT 17/11/2016

I also had to add the following to my rollup-config.js file:

plugins: [
  nodeResolve({jsnext: true, module: true}),
  commonjs({
    include: [
        'node_modules/rxjs/**',
        'node_modules/moment/**'
      ]
    }
  }),
  uglify()
]

I found a nice solution for the problem at hand:

Npm-install additional package moment-es6 which provides a default export. Then import from 'moment-es6' instead of from 'moment':

import moment from 'moment-es6';

• For use with systemjs, add the following to the systemjs.config.js map section:
  'moment-es6': 'npm:moment-es6/index.js'

• add 'node_modules/moment-es6/**' to the include's of your rollup configs commonjs section (rollup-plugin-commonjs)

Here is what I did to make work moment with typescript (at 2.1.6) and rollup (0.41.4).

1. To import moment, keep the standard way:

   import * as moment from 'moment';

import moment from 'moment'; is non-standard for a package without a default export, it will result an error at runtime: moment_1.default is not a function

2. In typescript use moment with by casting moment as any, and call the default function:

   var momentFunc = (moment as any).default ? (moment as any).default : moment;
   var newFormat = momentFunc(value).format( format );
   

moment(value).format(format) will result an error at rollup tree shaking: Cannot call a namespace ('moment')