Bug: Cannot find module espree.cjs

[kaihendry]

Environment

Node version: v16.11.1
npm version: npm@8.1.3
Local ESLint version: v7.32.0
Global ESLint version:
Operating System: MacOS 12.0.1 (21A559)

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ESLint: 8.3.0

Error: An error occurred while generating your JavaScript config file. A config file was still generated, but the config file itself may not follow your linting rules.
Error: Cannot find module '/tmp/check2/node_modules/espree/dist/espree.cjs'
    at createEsmNotFoundErr (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:960:15)
    at finalizeEsmResolution (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:953:15)
    at resolveExports (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:482:14)
    at Function.Module._findPath (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:522:31)
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:919:27)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:778:27)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1005:19)
    at require (/tmp/check2/node_modules/v8-compile-cache/v8-compile-cache.js:159:20)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/tmp/check2/node_modules/eslint/lib/rules/utils/ast-utils.js:13:16)
    at Module._compile (/tmp/check2/node_modules/v8-compile-cache/v8-compile-cache.js:192:30)

What parser are you using?

Default (Espree)

What did you do?

1. npm init -y
2. npm install eslint --save-dev

$ npx eslint --init
✔ How would you like to use ESLint? · style
✔ What type of modules does your project use? · commonjs
✔ Which framework does your project use? · none
✔ Does your project use TypeScript? · No / Yes
✔ Where does your code run? · node
✔ How would you like to define a style for your project? · guide
✔ Which style guide do you want to follow? · standard
✔ What format do you want your config file to be in? · JavaScript
Checking peerDependencies of eslint-config-standard@latest
The config that you've selected requires the following dependencies:

eslint-config-standard@latest eslint@^7.12.1 eslint-plugin-import@^2.22.1 eslint-plugin-node@^11.1.0 eslint-plugin-promise@^4.2.1 || ^5.0.0
✔ Would you like to install them now with npm? · No / Yes
Installing eslint-config-standard@latest, eslint@^7.12.1, eslint-plugin-import@^2.22.1, eslint-plugin-node@^11.1.0, eslint-plugin-promise@^4.2.1 || ^5.0.0

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found 0 vulnerabilities

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What did you expect to happen?

Initialised

What actually happened?

Failed ...

Participation

• I am willing to submit a pull request for this issue.

Additional comments

No response

[nzakas]

I think this is happening because eslint-config-standard hasn’t been upgraded to support ESLint 8.

@aladdin-add what do you think?

[aladdin-add]

mixed things: it's because the "ecmaVersion: 13" was generated via eslint v8, while eslint v7 does not support ecma 13.(eslint v7 was reinstalled aseslint-config-standard does not support eslint v8 yet).

to fix the error, you can change ecmaVersion: 13 => ecmaVersion: 12 in the generated config. it will be fixed in the new @eslint/create-config by setting ecmaVersion: "latest".

[aladdin-add]

Duplicate of #15159

[fabiopagoti]

I have something to add

After installing v8.3 explicitly
npm install --save-dev eslint@8.3.0

and then running
node_modules\.bin\eslint --init

√ How would you like to use ESLint? · style       
√ What type of modules does your project use? · esm
√ Which framework does your project use? · none
√ Does your project use TypeScript? · No / Yes
√ Where does your code run? · browser
√ How would you like to define a style for your project? · guide
√ Which style guide do you want to follow? · standard
√ What format do you want your config file to be in? · JavaScript

Then, I was prompted to install some additional modules

The config that you've selected requires the following dependencies:

eslint-config-standard@latest eslint@^7.12.1 eslint-plugin-import@^2.22.1 eslint-plugin-node@^11.1.0 eslint-plugin-promise@^4.2.1 || ^5.0.0
√ Would you like to install them now with npm? · No / Yes (Yes was selected)

Apart from the error mentioned above, I noticed that the devDependencies inside package.json was automattically changed to version 7.

As a workaround, I manually adjusted eslint version in package.json and then repeated the init wizard without downloading those modules again. Like this, the file was generated successfully.

[mdjermanovic]

This is most likely caused by overwriting ESLint with another version while eslint --init is still running, and will be fixed by extracting eslint --init into a separate package (#14768).