node-rate-limiter: Importing from esm in Node.js is broken in v2.1.0

Importing from esm in Node.js is broken in v2.1.0:

import { RateLimiter } from 'limiter'
         ^^^^^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Named export 'RateLimiter' not found. The requested module 'limiter' is a CommonJS module, which may not support all module.exports as named exports.
CommonJS modules can always be imported via the default export, for example using:

import pkg from 'limiter';
const { RateLimiter } = pkg;

    at ModuleJob._instantiate (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:105:21)
    at async ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:151:5)
    at async Loader.import (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:166:24)
    at async Object.loadESM (node:internal/process/esm_loader:68:5)

v2.0.1 was working.

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Reactions: 44
Comments: 22 (1 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

fix: pin limiter to v2.0.1 https://github.com/jhurliman/node-rate-limiter/issues/80 — committed to nftstorage/nft.storage by alanshaw 3 years ago
Fix deps - Upgrade eslint - Lock limiter to 2.0.1 (https://github.com/jhurliman/node-rate-limiter/issues/80) — committed to airforce270/CytubeBot by airforce270 2 years ago

Most upvoted comments

@jhurliman, Can we please merge just-performance#4 and #92?

Those two PRs will fix this issue (I’m trying to use this in my framework, and need this fix to be able to use it. 🙃).

sudiptosarkar on Aug 2, 2022

I’ve worked around it by importing the CJS file explicitly.

import * as limiter from "./node_modules/limiter/dist/cjs/index.js";

It’s ugly but it works.

For some reason, node was importing the esm files and treating them to be CJS files.

Looking forward to this being fixed.

Nazaire on Jul 25, 2023

For those who are still blocked, you can try following code to use require instead of import.

import { createRequire } from "module";
const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);

const RateLimiter = require('limiter').RateLimiter;

wayne5540 on Jun 6, 2023

For anyone still waiting, limiter-es6-compat

sudiptosarkar on Mar 29, 2023

Same issue here. Having issues with node 16.13.2. As with others previously mentioned, pinning limiter to 2.0.1 works great.

cornopaez on Jan 28, 2022

Fails for me too on node v16.4.2. Pinning limiter@2.0.1 works.

olizilla on Jul 21, 2021

Spoke too soon. @Nazaire’s method doesn’t work in a library (at least with yarn). Looks like I’ll have to use limiter-es6-compat.

brenc on Aug 9, 2023

@sudiptosarkar thanks 🙏

alanshaw on Apr 25, 2023