[🐛 Bug]: First time test run of WDIO with default configs results in ES related errors #10901
Description
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- I have read the Contributing Guidelines on issues.
WebdriverIO Version
latest
Node.js Version
v20.5.0
Mode
Standalone Mode
Which capabilities are you using?
capabilities: [{
browserName: 'chrome'
}],What happened?
I started with WDIO installation following these steps
- Created a git repo, cloned it on my system and did
npm init - Proceeded with
npm init wdioand accepted the default behavior in most cases - Ran
npm run wdioand faced errors
Attached screenshot of the npm init wdio step
What is your expected behavior?
The initial npm run wdio should have worked fine. Instead it started throwing error -
SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module
Full stack trace I have pasted in the log output section.
How to reproduce the bug.
- Clone this repo : https://github.com/zac11/wdio-work-demo
- Run
npm run wdio
Relevant log output
npm run wdio
> wdio-work-demo@1.0.0 wdio
> wdio run ./wdio.conf.ts
2023-08-09T05:30:14.234Z ERROR @wdio/config:ConfigParser: Failed loading configuration file: file:///Users/annubha/Documents/Rahul/wdio-work-demo/wdio.conf.ts: Cannot use import statement outside a module
/Users/annubha/Documents/Rahul/wdio-work-demo/wdio.conf.ts:1
import type { Options } from '@wdio/types'
^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module
at internalCompileFunction (node:internal/vm:73:18)
at wrapSafe (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1153:20)
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1197:27)
at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1287:10)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1091:32)
at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:938:12)
at ModuleWrap.<anonymous> (node:internal/modules/esm/translators:165:29)
at ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:192:25)
at async CustomizedModuleLoader.import (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:228:24)
at async ConfigParser.addConfigFile (file:///Users/annubha/Documents/Rahul/wdio-work-demo/node_modules/@wdio/config/build/lib/ConfigParser.js:85:36)
at async ConfigParser.initialize (file:///Users/annubha/Documents/Rahul/wdio-work-demo/node_modules/@wdio/config/build/lib/ConfigParser.js:47:13)
at async Launcher.run (file:///Users/annubha/Documents/Rahul/wdio-work-demo/node_modules/@wdio/cli/build/launcher.js:37:9)Code of Conduct
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Is there an existing issue for this?
- I have searched the existing issues