Use a manually installed node in a Function node?

[SuperNinja]

Hi,
I am looking to translate text. Like many I installed the node-red-contrib-google-translate node with the Palette.
Then I wanted to go further and translate text into a Function node.
I found @vitalets/google-translate-api.
I was going to install it with npm, but first, out of curiosity, and because google-translate is already installed in the Palette, I went to my node_modules folder and saw that @vitalets/google-translate-api is already installed (you call it a dependency I think?)

My question: how can I use this module to translate text in a Function node?

In the Github of @vitalets/google-translate-api he describes a use with node.js:

import { translate } from '@vitalets/google-translate-api';
const { text } = await translate('Привет, мир! Как дела?', { to: 'en' });
console.log(text) // => 'Hello World! How are you?'

I replace console.log(text) by node.warn(text) But that's not enough

so I ran into an alert: SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module (body:line 2)

Is there a setting to add in settings.js ? or another line of javascript code to change in my Function? (It may help me in the future, when I install other modules manually)

[cameo69]

You can define it on the setup tab of the function.

Then use code:

//import { translate } from '@vitalets/google-translate-api';
const  text  = await translate_api.translate ('Привет, мир! Как дела?', { to: 'en' });
console.log(text) // => 'Hello World! How are you?'
msg.payload = text;
return msg;

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[SuperNinja]

Great it works! THANKS