fix: Error [ERR_REQUIRE_ESM]: require() of ES Module

[alexcloudstar]

Expected Behavior

Should work i guess?

Current Behavior

Right now , when i run yarn install --frozen-lockfile and then try to test it with Jest for example, i got this issue:

Error [ERR_REQUIRE_ESM]: require() of ES Module /Users/stefanalexandruromila/Projects/alexcloudstar/project_name/node_modules/string-width/index.js from /Users/stefanalexandruromila/Projects/alexcloudstar/project_name/node_modules/cliui/build/index.cjs not supported.
Instead change the require of index.js in /Users/stefanalexandruromila/Projects/alexcloudstar/project_name/node_modules/cliui/build/index.cjs to a dynamic import() which is available in all CommonJS modules.
at Object. (/Users/stefanalexandruromila/Projects/alexcloudstar/project_name/node_modules/cliui/build/index.cjs:291:21)

But, if I run yarn install is working fine.

I use frozen-lockfile for Docker & CI/CD pipelines

I tried also to downgrade the node version to 18. And tried to downgrade the package to a smaller version but still got the issue.

I know that is saying something about string-width & cliui. But I run npm ls string-width / cliui, i got:

@commitlint/cli@18.4.4
└─┬ yargs@17.7.2
└── cliui@8.0.1

Also, this package is scoped to project and is NOT a global install

Affected packages

• cli
• core
• prompt
• config-angular

Possible Solution

No response

Steps to Reproduce

run yarn install --frozen-lockfile

run npx jest test or npx commitlint --config .commintlintrc.cjs

Context

No response

commitlint --version

18.4.4

git --version

v2.39.3

node --version

v21.1.0

[escapedcat]

Can you create a minimal repo for reproduction?

I know you tried node v18, but just fyi: only even versions are the real production ones

[alexcloudstar]

Hi @escapedcat , thank you for your response. Sure, here's the repo
https://github.com/alexcloudstar/commit-lint-es-module-error

[escapedcat]

Thanks, yeah, weird.
After the first install I got the same issue.
After doing this the test ran fine.

yarn test
yarn run v1.22.21
warning package.json: No license field
$ jest
 PASS  app/Button.test.tsx
  Button
    ✓ renders Button component (13 ms)

Test Suites: 1 passed, 1 total
Tests:       1 passed, 1 total
Snapshots:   0 total
Time:        0.481 s, estimated 1 s
Ran all test suites.
✨  Done in 1.84s.

node -v
v18.19.0

Not sure why this is happening tbh.

[alexcloudstar]

Thanks, yeah, weird.

After the first install I got the same issue.

After doing this the test ran fine.

yarn test

yarn run v1.22.21

warning package.json: No license field

$ jest

 PASS  app/Button.test.tsx

  Button

    ✓ renders Button component (13 ms)



Test Suites: 1 passed, 1 total

Tests:       1 passed, 1 total

Snapshots:   0 total

Time:        0.481 s, estimated 1 s

Ran all test suites.

✨  Done in 1.84s.



node -v

v18.19.0

Not sure why this is happening tbh.

Yea.. that is what i observed as well. But, i cannot do these in Ci/CD every time. Plus, if you delete node_modules and then try to run yarn install --frozen-lockfile you will get same issue every time

[escapedcat]

True, not sure how to fix this.

[alexcloudstar]

Thanks for the help anyway. Maybe someone from the community had the same issue and solved somehow.

[escapedcat]

Yeah, if this happens more often, people will at least find this issue. Thanks for raising!

[art1373]

It also happens for me, upgrading from 18.4.3 ❯ 18.4.4

[escapedcat]

Hm, which change could have caused this?
v18.4.3...v18.4.4

[alexcloudstar]

No one has a fix? Not even maintainers? 😢

[escapedcat]

Does this duplicate or relate to #3642?