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Can't use `require` in blank node project

See original GitHub issue

Does it only work with import?

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Created a year ago
Comments:7 (4 by maintainers)

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bennyschmidtcommented, Jun 21, 2022

Node environment supports imports since node v12.

Incorrect

Why do you need require?

The same reason millions of other projects do, JavaScript isn’t just React and Webpack.

Don’t worry about it. The 4 other libraries you put together to make this one already have Node support so I can just use them directly

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coderaisercommented, Jun 20, 2022

Yes, only import supported.

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