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Directory import is not supported resolving ES modules

See original GitHub issue

Prerequisites

I confirm my issue is not in the opened issues
I confirm the Frequently Asked Questions didn’t contain the answer to my issue

Environment check

I’m using the latest msw version
I’m using Node.js version 14 or higher

Node.js version

v16.14.2

Reproduction repository

see inline

Reproduction steps

I’m following https://github.com/mswjs/msw#node

index.mjs

import { setupServer } from "msw/node";

node index.mjs
node:internal/process/esm_loader:94
    internalBinding('errors').triggerUncaughtException(
                              ^

Error [ERR_UNSUPPORTED_DIR_IMPORT]: Directory import '/Users/timdaub/Projects/music-os-core/node_modules/msw/node' is not supported resolving ES modules imported from /Users/timdaub/Projects/music-os-core/index.mjs
Did you mean to import msw/node/lib/index.js?
    at new NodeError (node:internal/errors:371:5)
    at finalizeResolution (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:414:17)
    at moduleResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:983:10)
    at defaultResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:1080:11)
    at ESMLoader.resolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:530:30)
    at ESMLoader.getModuleJob (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:251:18)
    at ModuleWrap.<anonymous> (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:79:40)
    at link (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:78:36) {
  code: 'ERR_UNSUPPORTED_DIR_IMPORT',
  url: 'file:///Users/timdaub/Projects/music-os-core/node_modules/msw/node'

Current behavior

msw crashes with notes about ES modules.

Expected behavior

msw doesn’t crash and respects nodejs requirements about directory imports

Issue Analytics

State:
Created a year ago
Reactions:1
Comments:10 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

15reactions

TimDaubcommented, Jul 9, 2022

Thanks for wasting my time.

5reactions

kettanaitocommented, Jul 4, 2022

Closing this. See the explanation in https://github.com/mswjs/msw/pull/1202.

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