From 7a717de0193edca31b146e408d217be48c371010 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: martin-mfg <2026226+martin-mfg@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2025 11:25:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] use modern json import

---
 backend/src/cards/gist.js     | 11 +----------
 backend/src/cards/wakatime.js | 12 +-----------
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/backend/src/cards/gist.js b/backend/src/cards/gist.js
index 9e889e74..01a74e49 100644
--- a/backend/src/cards/gist.js
+++ b/backend/src/cards/gist.js
@@ -13,17 +13,8 @@ import {
 } from "../common/utils.js";
 import Card from "../common/Card.js";
 import { icons } from "../common/icons.js";
+import languageColors from "../common/languageColors.json" with { type: "json" };
 
-/** Import language colors.
- *
- * @description Here we use the workaround found in
- * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66726365/how-should-i-import-json-in-node
- * since vercel is using v16.14.0 which does not yet support json imports without the
- * --experimental-json-modules flag.
- */
-import { createRequire } from "module";
-const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
-const languageColors = require("../common/languageColors.json"); // now works
 
 const ICON_SIZE = 16;
 const CARD_DEFAULT_WIDTH = 400;
diff --git a/backend/src/cards/wakatime.js b/backend/src/cards/wakatime.js
index 9f1404e0..933b2cfa 100644
--- a/backend/src/cards/wakatime.js
+++ b/backend/src/cards/wakatime.js
@@ -9,17 +9,7 @@ import {
   lowercaseTrim,
 } from "../common/utils.js";
 import { wakatimeCardLocales } from "../translations.js";
-
-/** Import language colors.
- *
- * @description Here we use the workaround found in
- * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66726365/how-should-i-import-json-in-node
- * since vercel is using v16.14.0 which does not yet support json imports without the
- * --experimental-json-modules flag.
- */
-import { createRequire } from "module";
-const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
-const languageColors = require("../common/languageColors.json"); // now works
+import languageColors from "../common/languageColors.json" with { type: "json" };
 
 /**
  * Creates the no coding activity SVG node.