Jasmine on Node.js fails with ERR_UNSUPPORTED_DIR_IMPORT

I'm writing an Express v4.18.2 app on Node.js 18.12.1 on Windows. I'm testing a controller with Jasmine 4.5.0. When I run jasmine spec, it fails with an error message about resolving ES modules:

> Error [ERR_UNSUPPORTED_DIR_IMPORT]: Directory import
> '...\SimpleServiceJasmine\spec' is not supported resolving ES modules
> imported from
> ...\SimpleServiceJasmine\node_modules\jasmine\lib\loader.js
> ...
> code: 'ERR_UNSUPPORTED_DIR_IMPORT',
> url: 'file:///D:/.../SimpleServiceJasmine/spec'

I use require, not import, everywhere in the code being tested or the spec.

Note that jasmine runs fine if I specify the spec file explicitly, even with wildcards, as long as the wildcard path resolves to a single file:

jasmine spec/service/contact-api.spec.js  # ok
jasmine spec/*/c*  # ok

I tried downgrading jasmine to 3.0.0 and 2.0.1 but got the same error. The behavior is the same on Windows 11 and Windows Server 2019.

Any suggestions for how can I run all the specs in this project?

Here's my package.json:

{
  "name": "simpleservice",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "A simple CRUD API for contacts",
  "main": "service/contact-api.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "jasmine spec/service/contact-api.spec.js",
    "start": "node src/service/contact-api.js"
  },
  "author": "Puzzled Dev",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "express": "^4.18.2"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "jasmine": "^4.5.0"
  }
}

Here's the spec/support/jasmine.json:

{
  "spec_dir": "spec",
  "spec_files": [
    "**/*[sS]pec.?(m)js"
  ],
  "helpers": [
    "helpers/**/*.?(m)js"
  ],
  "env": {
    "stopSpecOnExpectationFailure": false,
    "random": true
  }
}

Jasmine uses glob for pattern matching, which means whenever you pass spec as a pattern, glob finds this particular directory and then returns it to jasmine. Unfortunately, path validation in jasmine does not seem in a very smart way, it continues executing with the given path, and then it throws an error by Node.js.

It is equivalent to this:

import spec from './spec'

You can take a look at the jasmine-runner code, and the line in which contributor put a comment:

> The ES module spec requires import paths to be valid URLs. As of v14,
Node enforces this on Windows but not on other OSes. On OS X, import
paths that are URLs must not contain parent directory references.

So, once you have defined spec_files in jasmine.json, there is no need to give an extra pattern to execute all tests.

jasmine will execute all tests with the help of spec_dir, and spec_files fields in jasmine.json. All you need to do is just simply run jasmine or npx jasmine.