TypeError: Cannot read property 'providers' of undefined: Truffle & Web3

Question

Here is the necessary part of the code, from where I keep receiving the following error:

const { Web3 } = require("web3");
const web3 = new Web3(new Web3.providers.HttpProvider('http://localhost:7545'));

TypeError: Cannot read property 'providers' of undefined Although, the node packages for Web3 are installed. How can I solve this problem?. Thanks.

Answer 1

From the example removing the {} around Web3 in the first line should do the trick

const Web3 = require("web3");
const web3 = new Web3(new Web3.providers.HttpProvider('http://localhost:7545'));

Answer 2

If you are using ethers.js:

Don't do

import ethers from "ethers" // bad

Instead do

import { ethers } from "ethers" // good