How should I configure Typescript to compile code to run in Node.JS? - node.js

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First, let me be clear that this is not related to the browser. There are a hundred different questions & answers about this that all start off with "you can't use CommonJS modules in the browser...", but that's not what I'm trying to do.
I have some Typescript code which I'm trying to compile to Javascript for execution via node file-scanner.js on a server. It seems like the configuration should be pretty straightforward, but I always wind up with an error: ReferenceError: exports is not defined.
I am using import/export exclusively in my code. The main entry point looks like this:
import { loadEnv } from './modules/environment';
import { getDatabase } from './modules/models/helpers/database';
import { indexFiles } from './modules/services/indexFiles';
loadEnv();
getDatabase()
.then((db) => {
return indexFiles(db);
})
.catch((err: Error) => {
console.error('[ERROR] Unable to index files');
console.error(`[ERROR] Message = ${err.message}`)
console.error('[ERROR] Error object:', err);
console.error('[ERROR] Stack Trace', err.stack || '--no trace available--');
});
And my tsconfig.json (copied from #tsconfig/bases node 10 configuration) looks like this:
{
"compilerOptions": {
"lib": ["es2018"],
"module": "CommonJS",
"target": "es2018",
"strict": true,
"esModuleInterop": true,
"skipLibCheck": true,
"forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
},
"include": [
"src/file-scanner.ts",
"src/modules/**/*/ts"
],
"exclude": [
"src/**/*.spec.ts"
]
}
I'm building it with:
./node_modules/.bin/tsc -p tsconfig.file-scanner.json --outDir lib
And running it with:
node lib/file-scanner.js
From what I understand, the Typescript compiler should be converting all my import/export statements to CommonJS module.exports & require statements. And I would hope that it includes all the appropriate code. But for some reason, when it comes time to execute the code, exports is not defined.
There's probably something obvious here that's staring me in the face, but I can't seem to figure it out. How do I get Typescript to compile for execution via Node.JS?