Getting: "Error [ERR_PACKAGE_PATH_NOT_EXPORTED]: No "exports" main defined ...." error

[ieazie]

This might be a problem with my setup, however, i keep getting the below error:

internal/process/esm_loader.js:74
internalBinding('errors').triggerUncaughtException(

Error [ERR_PACKAGE_PATH_NOT_EXPORTED]: No "exports" main defined in /Users/john.doe/Documents/Projects/cli/node_modules/template-file/package.json imported from /Users/john.doe/Documents/Projects/cli/lib/config-generator.js

Please could you help point me in the right direction on resolving this?

[techfort]

hey @ieazie how come you closed the issue? i'm getting the same error

[blakek]

We haven't seen this before, but after reading I think I see a way we could test something.

Could one of you remove the exports object from node_modules/template-file/package.json in your project and let me know if it runs?

// Before
"main": "dist/index.js",
"exports": {
  "require": "./dist/index.js"
},
"description": "🔀 Replace {{ variables }} in all your files",

// After
"main": "dist/index.js",
"description": "🔀 Replace {{ variables }} in all your files",

Also, are you using any tooling to transpile to an ES5 target or Node.js CommonJS? Just asking because it seems some build tool sees the exports but doesn't find what it's looking for (e.g. exports.import).

[blakek]

Also, if you have a minimal example, that'd be perfect. It'd help us get this solved a bit sooner.

[ieazie]

We haven't seen this before, but after reading I think I see a way we could test something.

Could one of you remove the exports object from node_modules/template-file/package.json in your project and let me know if it runs?

// Before
"main": "dist/index.js",
"exports": {
  "require": "./dist/index.js"
},
"description": "🔀 Replace {{ variables }} in all your files",

// After
"main": "dist/index.js",
"description": "🔀 Replace {{ variables }} in all your files",

Also, are you using any tooling to transpile to an ES5 target or Node.js CommonJS? Just asking because it seems some build tool sees the exports but doesn't find what it's looking for (e.g. exports.import).

I was able to resolve it as below:

// Before
"main": "dist/index.js",
"exports": {
  "require": "./dist/index.js"
},
"description": "🔀 Replace {{ variables }} in all your files",

// After
"main": "dist/index.js",
"exports": {
  ".": "./dist/index.js"
},
"description": "🔀 Replace {{ variables }} in all your files",

I suspect it may have something to do with my node version, I'm using version v14.13.1

[blakek]

Could you test version 6.0.1? This should be fixed!