esm crashes

[Thomblin]

I try to run the example from https://boardgame.io/documentation/#/multiplayer
Granted the packages are outdate and I don't know if or how to upgrade, but when I try to execute
node -r esm src/server.js I get the following weird error message. How can I figure out what is going on?

board_game@1.0.0 serve
node -r esm src/server.js

node[14506]: void node::fs::InternalModuleStat(const v8::FunctionCallbackInfov8::Value&) at ../src/node_file.cc:1043

Assertion failed: (args.Length()) >= (2)

----- Native stack trace -----

1: 0xfeb747 node::Assert(node::AssertionInfo const&) [node]
2: 0xff5587 [node]
3: 0x7f589a5cf186

----- JavaScript stack trace -----

1: /home/seeb/board_game/node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:34535
2: /home/seeb/board_game/node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:34176
3: /home/seeb/board_game/node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:34506
4: /home/seeb/board_game/node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:173374
5: /home/seeb/board_game/node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:173420
6: /home/seeb/board_game/node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:173521
7: /home/seeb/board_game/node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:258942
8: /home/seeb/board_game/node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:261569
9: e (/home/seeb/board_game/node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:262673)
10: get (/home/seeb/board_game/node_modules/esm/esm.js:1:262740)

Aborted (core dumped)

npm verbose cwd /home/seeb/board_game
npm verbose os Linux 5.15.153.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2
npm verbose node v23.1.0
npm verbose npm v10.9.0
npm verbose exit 134
npm verbose code 134