[ERR_PACKAGE_PATH_NOT_EXPORTED]: No "exports" main defined in package.json

[Schwartz10]

• Version:

  0.63.3

• Platform:

  Darwin MacBook-Pro.local 20.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 20.6.0: Mon Aug 30 06:12:21 PDT 2021; root:xnu-7195.141.6~3/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

Severity:

High - The main functionality of the application does not work, API breakage, repo format breakage, etc.

Description:

I've been trying to get a simple typescript nodejs project to import dependencies from ipfs on npm, but always results in

[ERR_PACKAGE_PATH_NOT_EXPORTED]: No "exports" main defined in package.json

This sounds related to https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/issues/4135 and https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/ts-ipfs-core-example-v0-15-0-causes-error-opposed-to-v0-14-0/14460

Steps to reproduce the error:

Clone this repo, npm i, and npm start

[achingbrain]

ipfs@0.63.x is ESM-only, which means you can't use require to load it, you have to use import. Please see the upgrade guide.

Note if you're using TypeScript you'll need to specify "module": "ES2020" and "target": "ES2015" in your tsconfig.json file.

[rafinskipg]

@achingbrain I'm really stupid to understand how to solve this. Can you provide some examples on how to use your package now with other packages when bundling? version 56.0.2 seems to work well with everthing

[woodjs]

async function loadIpfs() {

    const { create } = await import('ipfs');
    const ipfs = create({...});

    return ipfs;
}

[andarocks]

I am still getting the same error while trying the above code. I am using ipfs-http-client and using NestJs. Can anyone please help me out?

[kuzdogan]

Use a pre-ESM version of the ipfs-http-gateway. This is difficult to find but apparently with v0.10.0 it became ESM only.

npm i -d --save-exact ipfs-http-gateway@v0.9   

[ekhishigee]

@kuzdogan I am still getting the same error. I am using ipfs-http-client@v60 in NestJS. I would like to know how to solve that problem.

[ikaz-jem]

[ERR_PACKAGE_PATH_NOT_EXPORTED]: No "exports" main defined in package.json

use type:module and use import {create} instead of requiring http client it , it worked