I am trying to build a CLI for a node js only todo app using commander and conf modules in node js, with chalk to colour the output . I am not sure how to resolve the errors being returned:

ReferenceError: require is not defined in ES module scope, you can use import instead This file is being treated as an ES module because it has a '.js' file extension contains "type": "module". To treat it as a CommonJS script, rename it to use the '.cjs' file extension.

I'm getting the above error for both conf and commander

Any suggestions on how I could go about debugging this, or changing approach to using readline and events/EventEmitter would be better, will be appreciated, Thanks

Below is a REDACTED version of code:

list.js

const conf = new (require('conf'))();
const chalk = require('chalk');

function list() {
  const todoList = conf.get('todo-list');
  if (todoList && todoList.length) {
    console.log(
      chalk.blue.bold(
        'Tasks in green are done. Tasks in yellow are still not done.'
      )  
     }
    }

module.exports = list;

index.js file

const { program } = require('commander');
const list = require('./list');
program.command('list').description('List all the TODO tasks').action(list);
program.command('add <task>').description('Add a new TODO task').action(add);
program.parse();

package.json file

{
  "main": "index.js",
  "type": "module",
  "keywords": [],
  "dependencies": {
    "chalk": "^5.0.0",
    "chalk-cli": "^5.0.0",
    "commander": "^8.3.0",
    "conf": "^10.1.1"
  },
  "bin": {
    "todos": "index.js"
  }
}