Strip-Ansi using require() instead of import, generating exception

I have an angular 13 project and when I try to serve the project I get this error:

An unhandled exception occurred: require() of ES Module C:\Users\username\Documents\project\builds\Production2\tbsis\UI\node_modules\ansi-regex\index.js from C:\Users\username\Documents\project\builds\Production2\tbsis\UI\node_modules\strip-ansi\index.js not supported.
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This is the content of C:\Users\username\Documents\project\builds\Production2\tbsis\UI\node_modules\strip-ansi\index.js:

'use strict';
const ansiRegex = require('ansi-regex');

module.exports = string => typeof string === 'string' ? string.replace(ansiRegex(), '') : string;


It seems this require statement is causing the error.

How can I get around this?

I tried changing it to

import ansiRegex from 'ansi-regex';


But that gave this error when trying to serve

An unhandled exception occurred: Cannot use import statement outside a module See "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\ng-Z69dHd\angular-errors.log" for further details.
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Here is my package.json

{
"name": "client",
"version": "0.0.0",
"type": "module",
"scripts": {
"ng": "ng",
"start": "ng serve",
"startl": "ng serve --base-href \"\\\"",
"build": "ng build ",
"test": "ng test",
"lint": "ng lint",
"e2e": "ng e2e"
},
"postinstall": "ngcc",
"private": true,
"dependencies": {
"@angular-devkit/schematics": "^13.1.4",
"@angular/animations": "^13.1.2",
"@angular/cli": "^13.1.2",
"@angular/common": "^13.1.2",
"@angular/compiler": "^13.1.2",
"@angular/core": "^13.1.2",
"@angular/forms": "^13.1.2",
"@angular/platform-browser": "^13.1.2",
"@angular/platform-browser-dynamic": "^13.1.2",
"@angular/router": "^13.1.2",
"@fortawesome/fontawesome-free": "^5.3.1",
"ag-grid-angular": "^22.1.1",
"ag-grid-community": "^22.1.1",
"bootstrap": "^5.1.3",
"core-js": "^2.5.4",
"jquery": "^3.3.1",
"ngx-bootstrap": "8.0.0",
"node-gyp": "^7.1.2",
"npm": "^8.3.1",
"rxjs": "7.4.0",
"tslib": "^2.3.1",
"zone.js": "0.11.4"
},
"devDependencies": {
"@angular-devkit/build-angular": "^13.1.3",
"@angular/compiler-cli": "^13.1.2",
"@angular/language-service": "^13.1.2",
"@types/jasmine": "3.9.1",
"@types/jasminewd2": "2.0.10",
"@types/node": "12.12.6",
"codelyzer": "^6.0.1",
"grunt": "^1.4.1",
"grunt-cli": "^1.4.3",
"grunt-war": "^0.5.1",
"jasmine-core": "^3.9.0",
"jasmine-spec-reporter": "^7.0.0",
"karma": "^6.3.4",
"karma-chrome-launcher": "^3.1.0",
"karma-coverage-istanbul-reporter": "^3.0.3",
"karma-jasmine": "^4.0.1",
"karma-jasmine-html-reporter": "^1.7.0",
"protractor": "^7.0.0",
"ts-node": "^5.0.1",
"tslint": "^6.1.0",
"typescript": "^4.4.4"
},
"overrides": {
"postcss": "8.2.13",
"ansi-regex": "6.0.1",
"node-forge": "1.3.1",
"qs" : "6.10.3",
"@angular/core" : "^13.1.2"
}

}

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