cannot import image with create-react-app - reactjs

Question

I'm using create-react-app, and I am struggling to load images. I am following the instructions as specified here, but I keep seeing the following error:
Failed to compile.
Error in ./src/components/Home/imageIndex.ts
(1,24): error TS2307: Cannot find module './party.png'
Does anyone know why when I run yarn start my app continues to fail to compile?
I have a Home component and this is how I am importing the file:
import photo from './party.png';
The component is located in src/components/Home/index.tsx and the png file is located in src/components/Home/party.png.
here is my package.json:
{
"name": "eai-reactjs-typescript-redux-starter",
"description": "A ReactJS/TypeScript + Redux starter template with a detailed README describing how to use these technologies together and constructive code comments.",
"version": "0.1.0",
"private": true,
"dependencies": {
"react": "^15.6.1",
"react-dom": "^15.6.1",
"react-redux": "^5.0.5",
"redux": "^3.7.0",
"redux-logger": "^3.0.6"
},
"devDependencies": {
"#types/enzyme": "^2.8.0",
"#types/jest": "^19.2.3",
"#types/node": "^7.0.18",
"#types/react": "^15.0.24",
"#types/react-dom": "^15.5.0",
"#types/react-redux": "^4.4.40",
"#types/redux-logger": "^3.0.0",
"enzyme": "^2.8.2",
"react-addons-test-utils": "^15.5.1",
"react-scripts-ts": "1.4.0",
"redux-devtools-extension": "^2.13.2"
},
"scripts": {
"start": "react-scripts-ts start",
"build": "react-scripts-ts build",
"test": "react-scripts-ts test --env=jsdom",
"eject": "react-scripts-ts eject"
}
}

Answer 1

Are you sure you've got the correct path? Also when you import an image via css (as is done in the example you mentioned) you need to give a path relative to the public folder and not the src folder. I have run into this problem several times.
An example using import:
import Image from './img.png'
...
// react example
...
render() {
return (
<img src={Image}/> // notice the curly
...
and not
<img src="Image"/>

Answer 2

I had the same problem and was able to solve with a require statement.
const photo = require('./party.png');
and then in your component use that like:
render() {
return (
<img src={photo}/>
also see this post Displaying a static image using React, Typescript and Webpack

Answer 3

As #archae0pteryx proposed it is much better to separate pictures from the code, so the project public folder should be used instead of src.
Here is how it works with css:
copy 'img.bmp' into /public
inside .css file/class: background-image: url('/img.bmp');

Answer 4

You can simply use something like this:
render() {
// Note: this is an escape hatch and should be used sparingly!
// Normally we recommend using `import` for getting asset URLs
// as described in “Adding Images and Fonts” above this section.
return <img src={process.env.PUBLIC_URL + '/img/logo.png'} />;
}
Quoted directly from CRA docs

Answer 5

By default, Create-React-App uses url-loader for files with size 10000 bytes
that works fine in the development environment, but in production reduce error.
For a production environment, you should change the value for the limit of bytes in order to enforce webpack use file-loader instead.
If you have to eject your app modify webpack.config.prod.js file and change the limit of url-loader to 10 and will work as well
{
test: [/\.bmp$/, /\.gif$/, /\.jpe?g$/, /\.png$/],
loader: require.resolve('url-loader'),
options: {
limit: 10,
name: 'static/media/[name].[hash:8].[ext]',
},