Unable to run create-ink-app --typescript project

Following the getting started guide:

user@DESKTOP-CFOTQL1:~/projects/foo$ npx create-ink-app --typescript
user@DESKTOP-CFOTQL1:~/projects/foo$ npm run start

> foo@0.0.0 start /home/user/projects/foo
> npm run build && dist/cli.js


> foo@0.0.0 build /home/user/projects/foo
> tsc

(node:19237) Warning: To load an ES module, set "type": "module" in the package.json or use the .mjs extension.
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
/home/user/projects/foo/dist/cli.js:2
import React from 'react';
^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module
    at wrapSafe (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:979:16)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1027:27)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1092:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:928:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:769:14)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (internal/modules/run_main.js:72:12)
    at internal/main/run_main_module.js:17:47
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! foo@0.0.0 start: `npm run build && dist/cli.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the foo@0.0.0 start 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!     /home/user/.npm/_logs/2021-05-04T21_25_50_771Z-debug.log

Using node version 14.16.1 lts

[Caryyon]

Getting similar issues but about meow I’ve made it known there as well meow:172

[iamjaredwalters]

Anything I can do to help move this along?