I'm facing an issue with my Node.js project where I have various dependencies listed in the package.json file:
{
"name": "myproj",
"version": "1.0.0",
"scripts": {
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
},
"keywords": [],
"license": "ISC",
"dependencies": {
"bcrypt": "^5.1.0",
"bcryptjs": "^2.4.3",
"body-parser": "^1.20.1",
"cors": "^2.8.5",
"dotenv": "^16.0.3",
"express": "^4.18.2",
"ipfs-http-client": "^60.0.0",
"jsonwebtoken": "^9.0.0",
"lodash": "^4.17.21",
"moment": "^2.29.4",
}
}
In my JavaScript files, I typically use require to import modules like this:
const moment = require("moment");
const bcrypt = require("bcryptjs");
const jwt = require("jsonwebtoken");
const fs = require("fs");
Everything works fine until I need to use the latest version of the ipfs-http-client module. When I try to do
const client = require("ipfs-http-client");node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:544
throw e;
^
Error [ERR_PACKAGE_PATH_NOT_EXPORTED]: No "exports" main defined in /myproj/node_modules/ipfs-http-client/package.json
at new NodeError (node:internal/errors:400:5)
To workaround this issue, I tried using
import { create } from 'ipfs-http-client'require, but then I received a different error:
SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module
at internalCompileFunction (node:internal/vm:74:18)
To resolve this, I added type="module" in the package.json file. This fixed the error when importing ipfs-http-client, however, all other JavaScript files started throwing this error:
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
I don't want to switch all my files to use import just for one module. How can I handle this situation?