The React namespace is exported as CommonJs. As stated in TypeScript's Doc, we should always enable esModuleInterop.

Without esModuleInterop, example below will produce incorrect result because tsc cannot handle the default import(such as import React from 'react') of a CommonJs module correctly

import React from 'react';

export interface JumbotronProps {
  /** prop1 description */
  prop1: string;
}

/**
 * Jumbotron description
 */
export const Jumbotron: React.FC<JumbotronProps> = props => {
  return <div>Test</div>;
};

Currently, we always import React using the default import syntax. Additionally, when using tsc --init, esModuleInterop is enabled by default. For these reasons, I believe it is time to set esModuleInterop as the default configuration for the parse API.