I found I had to add this to get Typescript and webpack to both be happy with this. The other names are ok for the Typescript compiler, but when you go to load underlying code, webpack gets confused because the name doesn't match the `npm` name.
uri.search(true) does return an object, but Typescript believes there is a difference between an Object and any. Thus, if your querystring includes ?myParam=myValue, you should be able to access the value using uri.search(true).myParam. However, the compiler threw the error "The property 'myParam' does not exist on on value of type 'Object'". Changing the return type to any fixes this.
