Import statement breaks typeorm enitities when registered through config.json file

1. Make sure you have "module": "commonjs" in "compilerOptions" of tsconfig.json
2. Run typeorm cli using ts-node: ts-node ./node_modules/typeorm/cli.js

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Are you getting the error when trying to run the CLI, or when running the app?

You may need to change the "entities" entry in ormconfig.json to ["dist/entity/**/*.js"] or the "entitiesDir" to "dist/entity".