diff --git a/src/cli/index.ts b/src/cli/index.ts
index 80e9684e57..929fe03b4a 100644
--- a/src/cli/index.ts
+++ b/src/cli/index.ts
@@ -30,8 +30,9 @@ import HttpStream from '../formatter/http_stream'
 import { promisify } from 'util'
 import { Writable } from 'stream'
 import { pathToFileURL } from 'url'
-import importer from '../importer'
 
+// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
+const { importer } = require('../importer')
 const { incrementing, uuid } = IdGenerator
 
 export interface ICliRunResult {
diff --git a/src/formatter/builder.ts b/src/formatter/builder.ts
index 113ea23abc..72862b0740 100644
--- a/src/formatter/builder.ts
+++ b/src/formatter/builder.ts
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ import { IParsedArgvFormatOptions } from '../cli/argv_parser'
 import { SnippetInterface } from './step_definition_snippet_builder/snippet_syntax'
 import HtmlFormatter from './html_formatter'
 import { pathToFileURL } from 'url'
-import importer from '../importer'
+// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
+const { importer } = require('../importer')
 
 interface IGetStepDefinitionSnippetBuilderOptions {
   cwd: string
diff --git a/src/importer.js b/src/importer.js
index 7fbfb1da10..56bc57fab2 100644
--- a/src/importer.js
+++ b/src/importer.js
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ async function importer(descriptor) {
   return await import(descriptor)
 }
 
-module.exports = importer
+module.exports = { importer }
diff --git a/src/runtime/parallel/worker.ts b/src/runtime/parallel/worker.ts
index ec2271b937..b8b42b38b4 100644
--- a/src/runtime/parallel/worker.ts
+++ b/src/runtime/parallel/worker.ts
@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ import { IRuntimeOptions } from '../index'
 import { PredictableTestRunStopwatch, RealTestRunStopwatch } from '../stopwatch'
 import { duration } from 'durations'
 import { pathToFileURL } from 'url'
-import importer from '../../importer'
 
+// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
+const { importer } = require('../../importer')
 const { uuid } = IdGenerator
 
 type IExitFunction = (exitCode: number, error?: Error, message?: string) => void
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index 7d1e4e6851..b9d4b64ad9 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 {
   "compilerOptions": {
-    "allowJs": true,
     "esModuleInterop": true,
     "lib": ["es2019"],
     "module": "commonjs",