NX Plugin Workaround: Import ESM from CommonJS

requireEsm.cjs

/**
 * Workaround for NX's lack of ESM support
 *
 * See the following issues:
 * - {@link https://github.com/nrwl/nx/issues/16776 require() of ES Module executor.js ... not supported with custom plugin using es2015 module #16776 }
 * - {@link https://github.com/nrwl/nx/issues/15682 ESM Support for Nx Plugins #15682}
 *
 * @type {<T, P = PromiseLike<T>>(module: string) => P}
 */
const requireEsm = async module => {
  return import(module)
}

module.exports = {
  requireEsm,
}

The downside is that you lose automatic type resolution for the imported module, so you'll have to explicitly define it:

import { requireEsm } from './requireEsm'

type IMarkdownTableModule = typeof import('markdown-table')

export const exmapleFunction = async () => {
  const { markdownTable } = await requireEsm<IMarkdownTableModule>('markdown-table')
}