diff --git a/.babelrc.js b/.babelrc.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..69a629c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.babelrc.js
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+module.exports = {
+	presets: [
+		"@babel/preset-react",
+		"@babel/preset-typescript",
+		[
+			"@babel/preset-env",
+			{
+				targets: {
+					browsers: [">0.25%", "not dead"],
+				},
+			},
+		],
+	],
+	plugins: [["transform-react-remove-prop-types", { removeImport: true }]],
+};
diff --git a/babel.config.json b/babel.config.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 947229d9..00000000
--- a/babel.config.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "presets": [
-    "@babel/preset-react",
-    "@babel/preset-typescript",
-    [
-      "@babel/preset-env",
-      {
-        "targets": {
-          "browsers": [">0.25%", "not dead"]
-        }
-      }
-    ]
-  ],
-  "plugins": [["transform-react-remove-prop-types", { "removeImport": true }]]
-}
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index e00cf7bd..2292a142 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
   "author": "freeCodeCamp <team@freecodecamp.org>",
   "license": "BSD-3-Clause",
   "description": "The freeCodeCamp.org open-source UI components",
-  "type": "module",
   "main": "dist/bundle.js",
   "module": "dist/bundle.es.js",
   "style": "dist/base.css",
@@ -42,7 +41,7 @@
     "storybook": "storybook dev -p 6006 --no-open",
     "storybook:theming": "pnpm run storybook --no-manager-cache",
     "clean": "rm -rf dist/*",
-    "gen-component": "tsx ./utils/gen-component-script",
+    "gen-component": "ts-node ./utils/gen-component-script",
     "test": "jest",
     "prepare": "husky",
     "typecheck": "tsc"
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index 066b4727..8e9e870b 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -1,20 +1,19 @@
 {
   "compilerOptions": {
-    "module": "ES2022",
+    "module": "ES6",
     "target": "ES6",
     "sourceMap": true,
     "jsx": "react",
     "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
     "esModuleInterop": true,
-    "moduleResolution": "Bundler",
+    "moduleResolution": "node",
     "strict": true,
     "noEmit": true,
     "skipLibCheck": true
   },
   "ts-node": {
     "compilerOptions": {
-      "module": "commonjs",
-      "moduleResolution": "Node10" // Unfortunately we're stuck with this until Jest stops using ts-node
+      "module": "commonjs"
     },
     "transpileOnly": true
   }
diff --git a/utils/gen-component-script.ts b/utils/gen-component-script.ts
index a7f793b8..b357bb75 100644
--- a/utils/gen-component-script.ts
+++ b/utils/gen-component-script.ts
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ const toKebabCase = (pascalCasedName: string) =>
 
 const kebabCasedName = toKebabCase(name);
 
-const dir = path.join(import.meta.dirname, `../src/${kebabCasedName}`);
+const dir = path.join(__dirname, `../src/${kebabCasedName}`);
 
 // Throw an error if the component's folder already exists
 if (fs.existsSync(dir)) {