Discussion on: Migrate to Typescript on Node.js

[Masih Jahangiri]

Very good article.
after i run node .\built\app.js return this error:

Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true });
                      ^

ReferenceError: exports is not defined
    at file:///E:/Projects/dashboard-ts-server/built/app.js:2:23
    at ModuleJob.run (internal/modules/esm/module_job.js:110:37)
    at async Loader.import (internal/modules/esm/loader.js:167:24)

[Nathaniel]

What is your node version? If your nodejs version is old you might want to change lib and target in tsconfig.json to es5 or older

[Masih Jahangiri]

I solved the issue by removing "type": "module" from package.json.