Empresas
Empleos
  • Sobre nosotros
  • Soluciones
    • Publicación de vacantes
      Publica tu vacante y recibe candidatos calificados en 48h.
    • Evaluación de candidatos
      500+ pruebas técnicas y psicológicas, más anti-fraude.
    • Headhunting
      Búsqueda ejecutiva a la medida de principio a fin.
    • Nómina + EOR
      Dispersión de nómina y EOR en más de 15 países de LATAM.
  • Precios
  • Empleos

0

484
Vistas
Imported Node Module - Error: Cannot find module

I am trying to modify this existing npm package without much success. I have wasted several hours troubleshooting would appreciate some guidance.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/dxf

I have forked the package into my Github account. I have then used npm to install the module locally (W10 running latest LTS Node).

npm i https://github.com/mgbolts/dxf

It installs with no errors but when I require it in my app, I get this error:

Error: Cannot find module 'S:\mgbolts\coding\Udemy\Nodejs\projects\plasma\node_modules\dxf\lib\index.js'. 

Please verify that the package.json has a valid "main" entry

Looking in the dxf module folder, there is no lib subdirectory and the index.js file is located in the src subdirectory. I have modified the package.json file in the dxf package folder to reflect this. After this edit, I now get this error:

S:\mgbolts\coding\Udemy\Nodejs\projects\plasma\node_modules\dxf\src\index.js:1
import config from './config'

SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module
    at Object.compileFunction (node:vm:352:18)
    at wrapSafe (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1031:15)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1153:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1005:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (S:\mgbolts\coding\Udemy\Nodejs\projects\plasma\src\index.js:2:13)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1101:14)

I have then tried adding adding a new entry ("type": "module") to the package.json file in the module folder. After that I get this error:

S:\mgbolts\coding\Udemy\Nodejs\projects\plasma\src\index.js:2
const dxf = require('dxf')
            ^
Error [ERR_REQUIRE_ESM]: require() of ES Module S:\mgbolts\coding\Udemy\Nodejs\projects\plasma\node_modules\dxf\src\index.js from S:\mgbolts\coding\Udemy\Nodejs\projects\plasma\src\index.js not supported.

My code is very simple to solve this issue, just a simple const dxf = require('dxf').

Here is an extract of the package.json file as with the two edits mentioned above:

  "name": "dxf",
  "version": "4.6.1",
  "description": "DXF parser for node/browser",
  "main": "src/index.js",
  "type": "module",
  "bin": {
    "dxf-to-svg": "src/cli.js"
  }
about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza
1 Respuestas
Responde la pregunta

0

The matter has been resolved. I did not realise that you needed to compile the package when installing from github. Not something required when installing from NPM registry.

The module's package.json file has a script to run the compile process script.
npm run prepublishOnly

Took a little while to install the dependencies (browserify, babel, rimraf) but it compiled and now works...

about 4 years ago · Juan Pablo Isaza Denunciar
Responde la pregunta
Encuentra empleos remotos

¡Descubre la nueva forma de encontrar empleo!

Top de empleos
Top categorías de empleo
Empresas
Publicar vacante Precios Comercial
Legal
Términos y condiciones Política de privacidad
© 2026 PeakU Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Andres GPT
Recomiéndame algunas ofertas
Necesito ayuda