cant find package json-server within node_modules

[EnergeticPixels]

PNPM and NPM are reporting that it cannot find json-server from import statement within calling server.js file.

server.js file

import jsonServer from 'json-server';
console.log('Starting JSON Server');

package.json file

{
  "name": "crazy",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "type": "module",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
    "start": "node server.js"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "devDependencies": {
    "json-server": "^1.0.0-beta.1"
  }
}

The error:
ajackman@MarsVenus:~/projects/ep/crazy$ npm run start

crazy@1.0.0 start
node server.js

node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:210
const resolvedOption = FSLegacyMainResolve(packageJsonUrlString, packageConfig.main, baseStringified);
^

Error: Cannot find package '/home/ajackman/projects/ep/crazy/node_modules/json-server/package.json' imported from /home/ajackman/projects/ep/crazy/server.js
at legacyMainResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:210:26)
at packageResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:828:14)
at moduleResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:914:18)
at defaultResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:1119:11)
at ModuleLoader.defaultResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:542:12)
at ModuleLoader.resolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:511:25)
at ModuleLoader.getModuleJob (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:241:38)
at ModuleJob._link (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:126:49) {
code: 'ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND'
}

Node.js v22.2.0

npm version 9.5.1
pnpm version 9.1.0
node version 22.2.0

WSL2 / Debian 11 (Guest) / Windows 11 (host)

[Bankole2000]

Same issue as above +1

[EnergeticPixels]

This issue began with version 1.0 (anything). I walked simple project backwards thru all published packages. The one that worked was version 0.17.4.

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[quinyx-tjeerd]

i think this is because the line:

"main": "./lib/server/index.js",

which used to be in the package.json on 0.17.4 no longer exists on 1.0 versions.
which was pointing to the main script, but the 1.0 versions seem to only support the CLI variant.

and thus since this package has become no longer usable like that.

npm install --save-dev json-server@0.17.4

should be the fix for now,
while asking the maintainers what their plans are surrounding support for running this as express middleware.