The tsc compiler seems to report errors differently when using globals from different module systems (es or commonjs).

This example uses __dirname and meta.import.dirname but only the latter is reported when targeting commonjs via the "type" field in package.json. The __dirname silently passes when targeting es modules, but both produce runtime errors in node.

• npm i
• npm run esm (note no compile error but the output causes a runtime error)
• npm run cjs (note there is a compile error)