How to Resolve ”Uncaught Syntaxerror: Cannot Use Import Statement Outside a Module”?

javascript

To resolve the "Cannot use import statement outside a module" error for NPM/NodeJS, include "type":"module" in the package.json file:

{
  "name": "...",
  // ...
  "type": "module",
  // ...
}

If importing directly from the browser, add type="module" to the HTML script tag

<!-- Error -->
<script src="script.js"></script>

<!-- Fixed -->
<script type="module" src="script.js"></script>

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