How to fix "can not fin'd bcrypt" in NestJS?

Question

As found in this SO-answer, the following thing could be a way how to encrypt a password into a hash:

  @BeforeInsert() async hashPassword() {
    this.password = await bcrypt.hash(this.password, Number(process.env.HASH_SALT));
  }

However, although I have installed "bcrypt" and "types/bcrypt", it can't get found by NodeJS:

src/entities/user.entity.ts:50:27 - error TS2552: Cannot find name 'bcrypt'. Did you mean 'crypto'?

In my package.json the following lines show that bcrypt was successfully installed:

"@types/bcrypt": "^5.0.0",
"bcrypt": "^5.0.1",

How to fix this?

Answer 1

Import the bcrypt on the files where you use it like this:

import * as bcrypt from 'bcrypt';