hls-video-element is broken on latest node@22

[JinxedStar]

In our project we've been using hls-video-element successfully, and I just got a new m4 Macbook Pro! After installing everything, I was unable to run our node app, and was pulling my hair out wondering what the heck was going on with this error msg when running yarn web:

ReferenceError: require is not defined
    at file:///Users/jinxedstar/Documents/GitHub/MYPROJECT/node_modules/hls.js/dist/hls.mjs:1:46
    at ModuleJobSync.runSync (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:341:35)
    at ModuleLoader.importSyncForRequire (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:317:47)
    at loadESMFromCJS (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1381:24)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1503:5)
    at Module._compile (/Users/jinxedstar/Documents/GitHub/MYPROJECT/node_modules/esbuild-register/dist/node.js:2258:26)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1691:10)
    at Object.newLoader (/Users/jinxedstar/Documents/GitHub/MYPROJECT/node_modules/esbuild-register/dist/node.js:2262:9)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1317:32)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1127:12)
    at TracingChannel.traceSync (node:diagnostics_channel:315:14)
    at wrapModuleLoad (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:217:24)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1339:12)
    at mod.require (/Users/jinxedstar/Documents/GitHub/MYPROJECT/node_modules/next/dist/server/require-hook.js:65:28)
    at Module.tamaguiRequire (/Users/jinxedstar/Documents/GitHub/MYPROJECT/node_modules/@tamagui/static/dist/registerRequire.js:66:17)

... 100s lines of same error crap omitted

And after some serious fooling around with configs and node versions and etc, I finally tracked it down! Our app was running on Node 22.3.0 and for some reason nvm ignored the pinned version, and installed 22.11.0 on my machine. I downgraded to 22.9.0 and it was still broken, so I gave up and did a full downgrade to 22.3.0 and verified that it worked A-OK.

This means the package is broken somewhere between 22.3 and 22.9, I don't have the time to further test this and find out why, sorry!

Our app currently uses hls-video-element v1.2.7, and I verified that it's still broken in v1.2.11, drats...