This error mostly occurs when you are using the wrong Node module type in your code. For me, all of my source code was written using ECMAScript modules, however I was receiving this error, so I was slightly confused.

It turned out that the error was in the tsconfig.json file; all of the code was being compiled to CommonJS code even though it was written using ECMAScript modules.

You simply have to change the module item in the file from CommonJS to ES2022, as follows:

"module": "ES2022"

After recompiling your TypeScript code to JavaScript, you should find that the code executes as expected.