I'm facing a challenge in trying to integrate two libraries into a single project: fetch-node, an ES module, and Express, which follows the CommonJS format. The issue arises from needing to import fetch-node using:
import fetch from 'node-fetch';
while Express requires me to import it differently:
const express = require('express')
This becomes problematic due to my configuration in package.json:
"type": "module",tsconfig.json:
"target": "es2016",
"lib": ["es2019"],
"module": "Node16",
"esModuleInterop": true,
Attempting to import Express as mentioned above leads to this error:
const express = require('express');
^
ReferenceError: require is not defined in ES module scope, you can use import instead
This file is being treated as an ES module because it has a '.js' file extension and '/mnt/c/Users/Johannes/citygmlToGltf/package.json' contains "type": "module". To treat it as a CommonJS script, rename it to use the '.cjs' file extension.
at file:///mnt/c/Users/Johannes/citygmlToGltf/bin/app.js:15:17
at ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:194:25)
Node.js v19.1.0
error Command failed with exit code 1.
Is there a workaround for this situation? Can these two libraries not be used together effectively within a single project?