Error [ERR_REQUIRE_ESM]: require() of ES Module

[farhanhu87]

Hi Team,

I am facing below error when i run "node index.js"

warn: DeprecationWarning: The Parse Server option 'allowClientClassCreation' default will change to 'false' in a future version.
warn: DeprecationWarning: The Parse Server option 'allowExpiredAuthDataToken' default will change to 'false' in a future version.
warn: DeprecationWarning: The Parse Server option 'encodeParseObjectInCloudFunction' default will change to 'true' in a future version.
Error [ERR_REQUIRE_ESM]: require() of ES Module /home/farhan/parse-server-example/cloud/main.js from /home/farhan/parse-server-example/node_modules/parse-server/lib/ParseServer.js not supported.
main.js is treated as an ES module file as it is a .js file whose nearest parent package.json contains "type": "module" which declares all .js files in that package scope as ES modules.
Instead rename main.js to end in .cjs, change the requiring code to use dynamic import() which is available in all CommonJS modules, or change "type": "module" to "type": "commonjs" in /home/farhan/parse-server-example/package.json to treat all .js files as CommonJS (using .mjs for all ES modules instead).

at ParseServer.start (/home/farhan/parse-server-example/node_modules/parse-server/lib/ParseServer.js:146:13)
at async file:///home/farhan/parse-server-example/index.js:36:3 {

code: 'ERR_REQUIRE_ESM'
}
/home/farhan/parse-server-example/node_modules/parse-server/lib/ParseServer.js:146
require(path.resolve(process.cwd(), cloud));
^

Error [ERR_REQUIRE_ESM]: require() of ES Module /home/farhan/parse-server-example/cloud/main.js from /home/farhan/parse-server-example/node_modules/parse-server/lib/ParseServer.js not supported.
main.js is treated as an ES module file as it is a .js file whose nearest parent package.json contains "type": "module" which declares all .js files in that package scope as ES modules.
Instead rename main.js to end in .cjs, change the requiring code to use dynamic import() which is available in all CommonJS modules, or change "type": "module" to "type": "commonjs" in /home/farhan/parse-server-example/package.json to treat all .js files as CommonJS (using .mjs for all ES modules instead).

at ParseServer.start (/home/farhan/parse-server-example/node_modules/parse-server/lib/ParseServer.js:146:13)
at async file:///home/farhan/parse-server-example/index.js:36:3 {

code: 'ERR_REQUIRE_ESM'
}

[parse-github-assistant]

Thanks for opening this issue!

[dplewis]

@mtrezza Looks like cloud folder is dynamically imported

https://github.com/parse-community/parse-server/blob/alpha/src/ParseServer.js#L187

[mtrezza]

Is this only an example repo issue or a parse server issue?

[dplewis]

@mtrezza You reopened an issue for this parse-community/parse-server#7559

[djdannycastillo]

@farhanhu87 I faced this issue and I was able to resolve it by following this comment parse-community/parse-server#7559 (comment)

Hope this can help you :)