Cannot use import statement outside a module

[Retanaar]

Hi,
I received error message while trying to run tests

import React from 'react';
^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module

my cucumber.js profile

const common = [
'src//specs//.feature',
'--require-module ts-node/register',
'--require-module jsdom-global/register',
'--require src//specs/step-definitions//.steps.{ts,tsx}',
'--format progress-bar'
].join(' ');

module.exports = {
default: common
};

runing tests with ./node_modules/.bin/cucumber-js -p default

[moshebeeri]

I have the same issue with react-typescript project,
After checking around for an hour I concluded its in the ts config file,
changing the module to commonjs value solved it.
"module": "commonjs",

[DerZyklop]

Same here. After trying @moshebeeri’s solution, i get
Cannot find module 'node_modules/cucumber-pretty'
Installing cucumber-pretty or @cucumber/pretty-formatter does not fix it. :/

Btw. the tsconfig.json is the same our app uses to start. So I would prefer not to change it.

[Fryuni]

Sorry to come to this after almost 2 years, but I don't do frontend dev nearly at all, so I don't know what libraries are even involved in reproducing this.

Could one of you, if you are still facing this issue, provide a minimal reproduction repo?
A single hello-world component with a test that always passes should suffice.

Btw. the tsconfig.json is the same our app uses to start. So I would prefer not to change it.

As a side note, you can add a tsconfig.json file inside your step_definitions folder, extending the definition from your app and modifying what you want to be different. The ts-node module will use the correct file.

{
  "extends": "../tsconfig.json",
  "compilerOptions": {
    "module": "commonjs"
  }
}

It should not be necessary, but I thought it was nice to share 😄

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