cjs: Importing specific locale in jest test fails with 'Cannot find module'

[shmuelsochet]

Describe the bug

When importing specific locale during a jest test, the test fails with the error Cannot find module '@faker-js/faker/locale/en' from...

Reproduction

1. Add the line const faker = require('@faker-js/faker/locale/en'); on top of a jest file (i.e example.test.js)
2. Run test `npm run test example.test.js
3. You should get the 'Cannot find module '@faker-js/faker/locale/en' error

Additional Info

This does not occur when using the same import not during a jest test.
It also does not occur when not using specific locale like this const { faker } = require('@faker-js/faker');

[Shinigami92]

Can you try to provide a reproducible via https://stackblitz.com/edit/faker-js-demo?file=index.ts ?
Or maybe just a minimal GitHub repo

[hansonfang]

I have same issue after I upgraded it to 6.0.0 alpha. so I downgraded to 5.5.3 than problems gone.

[Shinigami92]

I have same issue after I upgraded it to 6.0.0 alpha. so I downgraded to 5.5.3 than problems gone.

We are still missing a minimal reproduction, so maybe you could provide one?

[Shinigami92]

@shmuelsochet @hansonfang Please try out the alpha.7 and report if the issue is fixed for you

[rich-frost]

We've noticed this issue again in version 8 when running our jest tests; error as follows:

Test suite failed to run

    Cannot find module '@faker-js/faker/locale/en' from 'node_modules/our-module/main.js

Have downgraded to version 7 and it works. Is this something that can be looked at in version 8?

[matthewmayer]

Can you switch to the prepackaged faker instances available in v8 eg

const { fakerEN : faker } = require('@faker-js/faker');

[rich-frost]

We have a legacy project that bundles this into the built code (work in progress to extract) so we were looking to just bring in the EN locale to reduce bundle size

[ST-DDT]

We've noticed this issue again in version 8 when running our jest tests; error as follows:

Test suite failed to run

    Cannot find module '@faker-js/faker/locale/en' from 'node_modules/our-module/main.js

Have downgraded to version 7 and it works. Is this something that can be looked at in version 8?

This issue is closed and I'm unable to reproduce the error locally.

const { faker } = require("@faker-js/faker/locale/en");
console.log(typeof faker); // object
console.log(faker.person.firstName()); // Tatyana
console.log(faker.location.city()); // Fisherborough

Please create a new issue and provide a minimal reproducible example.