Unable to create Emitter instance in Node

[chrisfillmore]

fancy-emitter v1.3.6
Node version 14.2.0

I have an empty NodeJS project where I have installed fancy-emitter. This is my code:

import {Emitter} from 'fancy-emitter';
const action = new Emitter();

Running node index.mjs produces the following output:

import {Emitter} from 'fancy-emitter';
        ^^^^^^^
SyntaxError: The requested module 'fancy-emitter' does not provide an export named 'Emitter'

If I change the code to this:

import * as fancy from 'fancy-emitter';
const action = new fancy.Emitter();

I get the following output:

const action = new fancy.Emitter();
               ^

TypeError: fancy.Emitter is not a constructor

How does one use fancy-emitter? Thank you.

[mothepro]

Hi Chris,
Hmm, Node 14.2.0 seems to handle ES modules very weirdly.

This is how I was able to make it work with that version of Node

1. Run npm init to create a package
2. Add "type": "module", into the package.json file that was created
3. npm i fancy-emitter
4. create a JS file with

import fancy from 'fancy-emitter'

5. fancy.Emitter works as intended.

For some reason this version of node also messes up import destructing... Making the following unusable.

import {SafeEmitter} from 'fancy-emitter'

I will investigate some more and see how to make it work for you.