Cannot find module 'strtok3/core' or its corresponding type declarations.

[d-sphinx]

"music-metadata": "^8.1.0"

[{
"resource": "/c:/_WORK/link_metadata/node_modules/music-metadata/lib/apev2/APEv2Token.d.ts",
"owner": "typescript",
"code": "2307",
"severity": 8,
"message": "Cannot find module 'strtok3/core' or its corresponding type declarations.",
"source": "ts",
"startLineNumber": 2,
"startColumn": 27,
"endLineNumber": 2,
"endColumn": 41
}]

APEv2Token.d.ts tries to import { IGetToken } from 'strtok3/core';

There is no 'core' file or dir in node_modules/strtok3

[Borewit]

Yes there is:

https://github.com/Borewit/strtok3/blob/91791f8f2ef80f905bdc0bc1088fd96ff2076ae9/package.json#L42

Problem is that your environment lacks proper ESM support, duplicate of #1217

[d-sphinx]

Yes there is:

https://github.com/Borewit/strtok3/blob/91791f8f2ef80f905bdc0bc1088fd96ff2076ae9/package.json#L42

Problem is that your environment lacks proper ESM support, duplicate of #1217

How do I fix it? My node is v14.20.1 (latest in 14 branch) - is this causes a problem?

[Borewit]

Node version should be ^14.13.1 || >=16.0.0", so that is fine.

Tests are passing against the latest Node v14:

https://github.com/Borewit/music-metadata/blob/master/.github/workflows/nodejs-ci.yml#L50

Maybe upgrade your TypeScript dev dependencies, seems on that level as it complaining about typings.

[bradleat]

I think the issue for most build tools (including the typescript compiler in the default configuration), is that the import should be to strtok3/lib/core

adding this to the compilerOptions of the tsconfig works:

"paths": {
        "strtok3/core": ["./node_modules/strtok3/lib/core"]
      }

or use moduleResolution: "node16" in the same place

The problem with the latter method is that is incompatible with many web packers (like Parcel or WebPack). In this case, you should use https://github.com/Borewit/music-metadata-browser instead.

[Borewit]

Thanks for sharing your experience @bradleat, on the long run I want to merge music-metadata-browser with (to) music-metadata, as ESM allows different import path for node.js and browser.

Please also raise this shortcomings at the web bundlers not supporting this. ESM is the official standard format after-all.