Error when imported from ESM code

[Macil]

If you try to import this library from ESM code, you get a fatal error:

% npm i @filebase/client
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: This module is deprecated, please upgrade to @multiformats/multiaddr-to-uri
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: This module is deprecated, please upgrade to @multiformats/multiaddr

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% echo 'import { FilebaseClient } from "@filebase/client";' > foo.mjs
% node foo.mjs
node:internal/errors:490
    ErrorCaptureStackTrace(err);
    ^

Error [ERR_INVALID_PACKAGE_CONFIG]: Invalid package config /private/tmp/bar/node_modules/ipfs-car/dist/esm/package.json while importing /private/tmp/bar/node_modules/ipfs-car/dist/esm/pack/index.js. Unexpected token ''', "'{ "type" "... is not valid JSON
    at new NodeError (node:internal/errors:399:5)
    at getPackageConfig (node:internal/modules/esm/package_config:64:11)
    at getPackageScopeConfig (node:internal/modules/esm/package_config:112:27)
    at getPackageType (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:690:25)
    at Object.getFileProtocolModuleFormat [as file:] (node:internal/modules/esm/get_format:54:12)
    at defaultGetFormatWithoutErrors (node:internal/modules/esm/get_format:103:43)
    at defaultResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:1094:13)
    at nextResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:163:28)
    at ESMLoader.resolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:837:30)
    at ESMLoader.getModuleJob (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:418:18) {
  code: 'ERR_INVALID_PACKAGE_CONFIG'
}

Node.js v19.5.0

I ran into this because the js-ipfs packages all went ESM last year and I was trying upgrading a project that depended on this library to use ESM to make it easier to use the latest js-ipfs packages.

[jtsmedley]

Accepted