Improve documentation about how to import in Typescript+Node<13.11

[peps]

Hi, im trying to use Hashids with Typescript and Node.

import Hashids from 'hashids';

I'm not getting any Typescript errors in the editor, but Im getting this error when the code is compiled.

Using ts-node version 8.5.4, typescript version 3.7.5

Error: No valid exports main found for 'node_modules\hashids' at resolveExportsTarget (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:625:9) at applyExports (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:502:14) at resolveExports (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:551:12) at Function.Module._findPath (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:657:22) at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:960:27) at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:855:27) at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1033:19) at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:72:18) at Object.<anonymous> (encodeID.ts:1:1) at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1144:30) [ERROR] 18:03:43 Error: No valid exports main found for 'node_modules\hashids'

Thanks!

[oleg-koval]

@peps have the same issue,

Temporarily fixed with:

declare let require: any;
const Hashids = require('hashids/cjs');

Would be good to have an update on this

[enahomurphy]

this works for me import hashids from 'hashids/cjs'

[niieani]

See README: https://github.com/niieani/hashids.js#use-in-commonjs-environments-most-often-nodejs
You need to require or import a different file depending on the environment, just like @enahomurphy suggested. One exception is if you use Node >=13.11, so it also will work out of the box from the main import in the upcoming Node 14 LTS.

[YashdalfTheGray]

I'd like to take this on if no one is working on it!

[niieani]

@YashdalfTheGray go for it!

[YashdalfTheGray]

I created #474 to hopefully close this!

[github-actions]

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