I converted an old project to use 'import' instead of 'require', and updated all the NPM packages, and added "type: module" to the package.json file. However, when I try to run I get the following error:

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

Error [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find module 'C:\username\Web\sender\sender\src\settings\settings' imported from C:\username\Web\sender\sender\src\services\files\initiate.service.js
    at new NodeError (internal/errors.js:322:7)
    at finalizeResolution (internal/modules/esm/resolve.js:308:11)
    at moduleResolve (internal/modules/esm/resolve.js:731:10)
    at Loader.defaultResolve [as _resolve] (internal/modules/esm/resolve.js:842:11)
    at Loader.resolve (internal/modules/esm/loader.js:89:40)
    at Loader.getModuleJob (internal/modules/esm/loader.js:242:28)
    at ModuleWrap.<anonymous> (internal/modules/esm/module_job.js:76:40)
    at link (internal/modules/esm/module_job.js:75:36) {
  code: 'ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND'
}
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path C:\username\Web\sender\sender
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /d /s /c node src/scripts/initiate.script.js

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2021-10-24T17_57_19_607Z-debug.log

When I added '.js' the problem was solved, however, I don't think this is the correct way to solve this issue. Is there any other way to overcome this error without adding '.js' to all of my imports?

Thanks.