"SyntaxError: Unexpected token {" in Typescript Express

[utmishra]

Describe the bug

import swaggerJsDoc from 'swagger-jsdoc';
const options = {
  "definition": {
    "openapi": "3.0.0",
    "info": {
      "title": "Hello World",
      "version": "1.0.0"
    }
  },
  "apis": ['./src/routes*.js'],
};

const openapiSpecification = swaggerJsDoc(options);

Setting the above simple default specification on Typescript based Express throws the following error:

import { prepare, extract, organize, finalize } from './src/specification.js';
       ^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token {
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:723:23)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:692:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:25:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/utmishra/dev/projects/stories/authentication/src/app.ts:22:1)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)
    at Module.m._compile (/Users/utmishra/dev/projects/stories/authentication/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:1056:23)
    at Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
    at Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .ts] (/Users/utmishra/dev/projects/stories/authentication/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:1059:12)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:692:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:25:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/utmishra/dev/projects/stories/authentication/src/index.ts:2:1)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)
    at Module.m._compile (/Users/utmishra/dev/projects/stories/authentication/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:1056:23)
    at Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
    at Object.require.extensions.(anonymous function) [as .ts] (/Users/utmishra/dev/projects/stories/authentication/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:1059:12)

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behaviour:

1. Run a Typescript Node package with swagger-jsdoc installed

Package version: ^7.0.0-rc.6

Expected behaviour
The app runs without throwing an error

Additional context
Current workaround:

[masives]

Had same issue, downgrading 6.0.1 fixed it

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