How to solve the error of

SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module

In an external dependency? I am using typorm and it is throwing error because of this package inside the docker container. Locally, everything is working fine. I cannot use type = 'module' because i am using typescript compiling my code with target: "es5"

My tsconfig:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "target": "es5",
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
    "skipLibCheck": true,
    "declaration": true,
    "esModuleInterop": true,
    "noImplicitAny": false,
    "outDir": "./dist",
    "baseUrl": ".",
    "rootDir": ".",
  }
}

Node version: 17