VK bot won't start on Node JS?

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Good afternoon, I decided to try to make a bot on Node.Js. I found the VK-IO library, copied the example from the documentation, but it doesn't work, tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Mistake:

/home/vk_bot/app.js:1
import { VK } from 'vk-io';
^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module

The code:

import { VK } from 'vk-io';

const vk = new VK({
  token: process.env.TOKEN
});

vk.updates.on('message_new', async (context) => {
  if (context.text === 'Привет') {
    await context.send('Привет!');
  }
});

await vk.updates.start();

Documentation from which I took the example:
https://negezor.github.io/vk-io/en/guide/modules.h...

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You are using an example that uses es6 modules which nodejs does not support. You need to use the CommonJS import.
PS: learn to fully read the documentation
const { VK } = require('vk-io');