Node.js – Getting strange error using UUID npm module. What am I doing wrong

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Getting "Error: Package exports for 'D:\test\node_modules\uuid' do not define a '.' subpath" all the time when I require it.

OS – Windows 10 Pro
Node version – v13.1.0
NPM version – 6.14.4

I created a project from scratch and run npm init -y to create initial package.json
Then I installed uuid by running npm install uuid and created index.js with nothing but only

const { v4: uuidv4 } = require('uuid');
uuidv4();

from their example

But whenever I try to run this code node ./index.js I always get this error:

internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:488
    throw e;
    ^

Error: Package exports for 'D:\test\node_modules\uuid' do not define a '.' subpath
    at applyExports (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:485:15)
    at resolveExports (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:508:12)
    at Function.Module._findPath (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:577:20)
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:879:27)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:785:27)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:956:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:74:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (D:\test\index.js:1:24)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1063:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1103:10) {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND'
}

What am I doing wrong?

Best Answer

I know that Nodejs version v13 had some issues with this. I tried with v12.16.3 and it's working. Either use latest v14.2.0 or official LTS v12.16.3

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