Unable to use requireJS and Node's Require in the same TypeScript project - node.js

Question

I have a typescript project targeted at both Node and the browser. I'm using Node's require() in some scripts and requireJS's require() in others. My project directory looks like this:
myProject
\-- a.ts
\-- b.ts
\-- node.d.ts
\-- require.d.ts
where a.ts contains:
/// <reference path="./node.d.ts" />
var cp = require('child-process');
var a = 'hello world'
export = a
and b.ts contains:
/// <reference path="./require.d.ts" />
require('hello',function(x){console.log('world')});
var b = 'hello world'
export = b
and where require.d.ts and node.d.ts are obtained from DefinitlyTyped.
When I compile my project, I get these errors:
b.ts(2,1): error TS2346: Supplied parameters do not match any signature of call target.
require.d.ts(396,13): error TS2403: Subsequent variable declarations must have the same type. Variable 'require' must be of type 'NodeRequire', but here has type 'Require'.
I use this idiom to determine which modules to load, so I'm not loading a node module in the browser or vice versa.
if(typeof module !== 'undefined' && module.exports){
// We're in a Node process
}else{
// We're in an AMD module in the browser:
}
Is there a way to use both of these .d.ts files in the same project. It seems using them in separate modules is not enough.

Answer 1

Is there a way to use both of these .d.ts files in the same project
I highly recommend going with commonjs everywhere. That is what the React community has spearheaded and it's a much simpler workflow. Just use CommonJS + webpack (to get lazy require.ensure from here). 🌹
There's also a quickstart for TypeScript in the browser environment.

Answer 2

In the end what I needed was the ability to require() JS content that is compiled on the fly by the server -- which doesn't seem to work with web-pack.
To suppress the errors from the typescript compiler in the original question, I commented out this line from require.d.ts (the RequireJS declaration file):
declare var require: Require;
and I used the {foo:bar}['f'+'oo'] trick to get tsc to 'forget' the type of the ambient require variable when assigning it to the typed requirejs variable, like so:
var requirejs:Require; // requirejs
if(typeof module !== 'undefined' && module.exports){
// We're in a Node process
requirejs = require('requirejs');
}else{
// We're in an AMD module in the browser:
requirejs = {require:require}['req'+'ire'];
}
// use requirejs for dynamic require statements
requirejs(gather_requirements(),do_things);