I'm new to the Typescript world so might be misunderstanding how this should work, but from what I can see in #5688, cheerio should work with ES6 mode in Typescript. However, it seems that you cannot just call cheerio(html) - tsc will compile it fine, but babel-node spits out an error TypeError: cheerio is not a function. You instead have to call cheerio.load(html) and then interact with that (via .root() to get the CheerioElement).

Like I say, new to this so I may be making a rookie error here! I've uploaded a simple test case demonstrating what I mean: https://github.com/tomduncalf/cheerio-testcase