Angular-Shepherd 19 CommonJS build fails with TS2309

[KeithGillette]

Attempting to upgrade to Angular-Shepherd 19 in a project using moduleResolution: node generates the following error:

Error: node_modules/shepherd.js/dist/cjs/shepherd.d.cts:581:1 - error TS2309: An export assignment cannot be used in a module with other exported elements.

581 export = Shepherd;
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[RobbieTheWagner]

@KeithGillette would you be able to update to "moduleResolution": "bundler"? That's how I fixed things. I am unfamiliar with how Angular usually does things, so if node is required for all Angular projects we probably do need a different fix, but I find it strange that a browser framework would be using node.

[KeithGillette]

Hi, @RobbieTheWagner — Since I opened this issue, I was able to update my Angular 19 project to "moduleResolution": "bundler" since a different dependency of our project corrected their package.json exports, which was previously preventing the update, so this is no longer actually a problem for me. However, I think there's an error in the CommonJS distributable in the published Angular-Shepherd 19 package, per the output I reported, as "moduleResolution": "node" worked fine with Angular-Shepherd 18. I see a couple of people reacted to my original post, so this may still be problematic for others.

[itmilos]

I have the same issue...

[cdelgadob]

Fully agree with @KeithGillette - while this setting solves the problem, it's just a workaround, and not a final solution, which should be considered in a future fix.

[RobbieTheWagner]

We're actually likely to drop CJS entirely soon and highly recommend that folks use "moduleResolution": "bundler"