Trouble Importing Modules

I'm having trouble importing JsonRpcProvider in my node backend. Probably a module/common-js mix-up but hoping for some direction.

Importing like so import { JsonRpcProvider } from "essential-eth";

SyntaxError: Named export 'JsonRpcProvider' not found. The requested module 'essential-eth' is a CommonJS module, which may not support all module.exports as named exports. CommonJS modules can always be imported via the default export, for example using:

import pkg from 'essential-eth'; const { JsonRpcProvider } = pkg;

However, the second form of import, for instance by doing this : import EssentialEth from "essential-eth"; const provider = new EssentialEth.JsonRpcProvider(ENV.Blockchain.RPC_URL);

Causes:

import { BaseContract, Contract } from "./classes/Contract"; ^^^^^^ SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module

I am using "type": "module", not commonjs. In tsconfig.json, module is set to "module": "NodeNext"

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Trouble Importing Modules #260

SyntaxError: Named export 'JsonRpcProvider' not found. The requested module 'essential-eth' is a CommonJS module, which may not support all module.exports as named exports. CommonJS modules can always be imported via the default export, for example using: