export declared with export = DeviceDetector; forces me to use 'allowSyntheticDefaultImports'

[IARI]

DeviceDetector is declared with export = DeviceDetector; and no default export is specified.

Our project was configured without 'allowSyntheticDefaultImports'.
With this configuration:

1. an IDE like webstorm will automatically import DeviceDetector with the line

import * as React from "react";

which will work fine in development, but when the project is built, there will be exceptions, the DeviceDetector constructor will not be found.

Trying to import DeviceDetector with this configuration like this

import DeviceDetector from "device-detector-js";

leads to the following typescript error:

⚠️ Missing/incorrect detections should be reported at https://github.com/matomo-org/device-detector/issues instead of this repo.
TS1259: Module '"C:/dev/viuport/client/node_modules/device-detector-js/dist/index"' can only be default-imported using the 'allowSyntheticDefaultImports' flag index.d.ts(34, 1): This module is declared with using 'export =', and can only be used with a default import when using the 'allowSyntheticDefaultImports' flag.

see also https://www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig#allowSyntheticDefaultImports

I would instead endorse exporting DeviceDetector as default, for example like this

export default class DeviceDetector {
// ...