SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module

[philmirez]

Hello 👋

I'm in need of some help. I'm trying to use this within my local github action. I'm defaulting to the default environment for the action so I'm not compiling/transpiling. I was surprised when I saw this error since it's within the node_module directory. I know github actions default to node 12. I'm wondering why it isn't picking up the compiled/transpiled code? I'm not sure if this is isolated to this repo or to all my node_modules. I'm still investigating.

// <repo>/package.json
{
...
  "dependencies": {
    ...
    "to-semver": "^4.0.0"
  }
}

// <repo>/actions/contentful-action/src/action.js
const toSemver = require('to-semver')

// github action error
/home/runner/work/<repo>/node_modules/to-semver/index.js:1
import semver from 'semver';
^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:895:18)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:995:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:815:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:727:14)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:852:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:74:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/runner/work/<repo>/.github/actions/contentful-action/src/action.js:7:18)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:959:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:995:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:815:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:727:14)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:852:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:74:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/runner/work/<repo>/.github/actions/contentful-action/src/index.js:3:23)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:959:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:995:10)