TS1378

error TS1378: Top-level ‘await’ expressions are only allowed when the ‘module’ option is set to ‘es2022’, ‘esnext’, ‘system’, or ‘nodenext’, and the ‘target’ option is set to ‘es2017’ or higher.

Broken Code ❌

tsconfig.json
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{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "lib": ["es2017"],
    "module": "commonjs",
    "outDir": "dist",
    "rootDir": "src",
    "target": "es6"
  }
}

Fixed Code ✔️

tsconfig.json
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{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "lib": ["es2017"],
    "module": "esnext",
    "outDir": "dist",
    "rootDir": "src",
    "target": "es2017"
  }
}