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Exports not found for property assignments in object literal

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#27 opened on Feb 25, 2026

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module.exports= {
  test: 5
}

...returns no exports. This was also the case with cjs-module-lexer and was marked as "won't fix": https://github.com/nodejs/cjs-module-lexer/issues/6

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Investigate the lexer's handling of object literal property assignments in CommonJS exports. Trace the parsing logic to see why `module.exports = { test: 5 }` fails to detect `test` as an export.
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cpp
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