Issue with aio app add actions

Question

I am facing an issue while trying to add actions in my Adobe I/O project using the aio app add actions command. The error I get is:

Error: Named export 'loadFile' not found. The requested module 'mem-fs' is a CommonJS module, which may not support all module.exports as named exports.

System Details:

Node.js Version: v22.13.1
npm Version: 10.9.2
AIO CLI Version: 10.3.2

>aio app add actions

When i try to add action, I see below error

i Installing template @adobe/generator-add-action-generices, go to https://adobe.ly/templates
i Installing npm package @adobe/generator-add-action-generic

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√ Installed npm package @adobe/generator-add-action-generic
 »   Error: Named export 'loadFile' not found. The requested module 'mem-fs' is a CommonJS module, which may not support all module.exports as named exports.
 »   CommonJS modules can always be imported via the default export, for example using:
 »
 »   import pkg from 'mem-fs';
 »   const { loadFile } = pkg;

Any guidance or workaround would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

olivark · Accepted Answer

Thank you, @sarav_prakash for your suggestions.
Unfortunately, the issue is still not resolved on my current windows system. However, I tested it on my Mac with same Node, npm and AIO versions and it is working fine there. I guess that the problem might be specific to my current environment rather than the versions.

If anyone has any ideas on what could be causing this difference, It would help me better understand the issue. Thanks You!

For those still facing that issue, maybe the following can help.

In my case I wanted to setup an extension,

aio app init --template=@adobe/universal-editor-ui-ext-tpl

and it was erroring with the same error.

I ran the following command in the folder where I wanted to install from the template,

aio plugins install @61380/aio-cli-plugin-app-templates@2.0.1

Then, run again the aio app init and it worked.

Ref. https://github.com/adobe/aio-cli/issues/716

sarav_prakash · Answer

Does the add action wizard load successfully for you? this is the wizard sequence for me

after selecting all action templates, I chose generator-add-action-generic similar to you.

and provided action name. I tried add action from node22 as well and works.

Can you try

delete `rm -rf node_modules`
delete `rm package-lock.json`
clear cache `npm cache clean --force`
then `npm install`

and finally add action. Looks like some dependency is obsolete in your project that is conflicting when generic-action is installed. try clearing and reinstall, maybe node will resolve dependencies rightly.

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