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Pinging the DT module owners: @MeirionHughes, @danwbyrne, @carsonfarmer, @istherepie.

Thanks davidmurdoch!

You are correct, exported definitions do not mimic the original package.
I'll have a look at how to fix it and get back to you!

@davidmurdoch

A new package of @types/levelup has been released on npm with version 5.1.1:

// package.json
  "dependencies": {
    ...
    "@types/levelup": "^5.1.1",
    ...
  }

This will now work as intended using the export = and import = require() syntax:

import levelup = require("levelup");

// leveldown store
const leveldown = require("leveldown") ;
const store = leveldown("./testdb")

// levelup instance
const db = levelup(store)

Thanks again for report this and please mark this discussion as answered if you are satisfied with the fix!