esm: clarify ERR_REQUIRE_ESM errors

In #39175, better ESM errors were introduced. This commit tweaks the language in the error slightly to make it clear that there are three different options to resolve the error. Refs: #39175 PR-URL: #49521 Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Jacob Smith <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Geoffrey Booth <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Stephen Belanger <[email protected]>
nodejs · Sep 15, 2023 · 6a489df · 6a489df
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diff --git a/lib/internal/errors.js b/lib/internal/errors.js
@@ -1542,7 +1542,7 @@ E('ERR_REQUIRE_ESM',
     msg += `\n${basename} is treated as an ES module file as it is a .js ` +
       'file whose nearest parent package.json contains "type": "module" ' +
       'which declares all .js files in that package scope as ES modules.' +
-      `\nInstead rename ${basename} to end in .cjs, change the requiring ` +
+      `\nInstead either rename ${basename} to end in .cjs, change the requiring ` +
       'code to use dynamic import() which is available in all CommonJS ' +
       'modules, or change "type": "module" to "type": "commonjs" in ' +
       `${packageJsonPath} to treat all .js files as CommonJS (using .mjs for ` +

diff --git a/test/es-module/test-cjs-esm-warn.js b/test/es-module/test-cjs-esm-warn.js
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ describe('CJS ↔︎ ESM interop warnings', { concurrency: true }, () => {
     );
     assert.ok(
       stderr.replaceAll('\r', '').includes(
-        `Instead rename ${basename} to end in .cjs, change the requiring ` +
+        `Instead either rename ${basename} to end in .cjs, change the requiring ` +
         'code to use dynamic import() which is available in all CommonJS ' +
         `modules, or change "type": "module" to "type": "commonjs" in ${pjson} to ` +
         'treat all .js files as CommonJS (using .mjs for all ES modules ' +