Failed to load next.config.js

After cloning the repository I created and set my .env.local file, ran npm i then ran npm run dev. The server starts, env is loaded from .env.local however it immediately fails prompting me with the following:

error - Failed to load next.config.js, see more info here https://nextjs.org/docs/messages/next-config-error
Error: Not supported
    at Object.loadConfig [as default] (C:\Users\Nick\Desktop\rebuild\node_modules\next\dist\server\config.js:399:74)
    at async NextServer.loadConfig (C:\Users\Nick\Desktop\rebuild\node_modules\next\dist\server\next.js:110:22)
    at async NextServer.prepare (C:\Users\Nick\Desktop\rebuild\node_modules\next\dist\server\next.js:92:24)
    at async C:\Users\Nick\Desktop\rebuild\node_modules\next\dist\cli\next-dev.js:126:9
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! rebuild@0.1.0 dev: `next dev`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the rebuild@0.1.0 dev script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\Nick\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2021-10-29T19_47_30_427Z-debug.log

[hnkolasu]

for me, removing “type”: “module” from package.json fixed the problem, but it was there for a reason

[abbasahmad]

Indeed. i got confused with all the different gitHub issues i had opened.

my apologies!