Proposal: TS no-var-requires set to false

[nazrhom]

I am currently having troubles with this rule when dealing with conditional imports. I couldn't find a nice way to do this that does not violate the rule (e.g. http://ideasintosoftware.com/typescript-conditional-imports/) as it is not possible to use import statements that are not on the top-level.
Do we have a good workaround for this case? Dynamic imports could be a solution but they are a bit clunky in some cases as they are async and must be handled with promises

[pimterry]

You can use dynamic imports instead. They look like:

import('path').then((path) => ...)

This means you have to deal with a promise, but all the typing etc still works correctly, which is the big problem with the var/const alternative. We do this in the cli, with async/await too, to lazily do expensive requires, like so: https://github.com/resin-io/resin-cli/blob/master/lib/actions/push.ts#L109-L112