I think you want import shell from 'shelljs';. Here's an example (which is transpiled by babel, but hopefully still works with native ES module support):

https://github.com/shelljs/shx/blob/61aca968cd7afc712ca61a4fc4ec3201e3770dc7/src/shx.js#L1

Let me know if that works for you.

Just tried this out and it seems to work for me:

// index.mjs
import shell from 'shelljs';

console.log(shell.ls().stdout);

I can run this with:

$ node --version
v16.13.1

$ node index.mjs
index.mjs
node_modules
package-lock.json
package.json

Also have some findings:

It depends on the import statement.
I used import * as shell from 'shelljs' but the returned shell object contains only with the members config, default, env, error, exit, ShellString.
These are are added explicitly to exports.

After adding a line in shell.js:

exports.ls = exports.ls;

ls is available on the shell object.

Seems that the way you // Load all default commands creates this phenomena.

Hi please help does anyone have an idea how to add an import module for babel / webpack in electron. In the electron, the module can be added functionally in the following line. But I don't know how to add "require.main.require" to the import.

var shell = require.main.require ('shelljs');

Thank you for every thought, I appreciate your work!

Any update? Even if import shell from "shelljs"; works, why just don't support es6?

I'm not sure what you're requesting. I think import shell from 'shelljs' works and that's what we've documented. If that's not what you're looking for, can you explain how we can make this better?