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Having trouble converting this require statement into an import statement

I have a require statement in my script.

const packageJsonVersion = require('../package.json').version;

If I try and run the script I get an error saying I need to convert it to an import statement.

I changed the code to import { version as packageJsonVersion } from '../package.json' but when I run the script I get the following error.

TypeError [ERR_UNKNOWN_FILE_EXTENSION]: Unknown file extension ".json" for /home/alex/_code/connect/package.json

I'm not sure how to get around this.

7 months ago · Juan Pablo Isaza

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Answer 1 · 2022-07-04T05:04:32.527Z

It depends on what environment you're doing this in.

Right now, browsers don't natively support JSON modules (though it's coming).
If you're doing this with a bundler, you need to be sure to tell the bundler how to handle the .json extension.
If you're doing this in Node.js, you need the JSON module notation (assert {type: "json"}).

Separately, though, JSON modules won't support named exports (this is mentioned by both links above). You'll have to import the default and then use the version property on it:

import data from "../package.json" assert { type: "json" };
const packageJsonVersion = data.version;