title: Cannot use import statement outside a module in Lambda function
body: <p>I have created a lambda function to get the list of items stored in dynamodb. Then i executed npm run build command after which i got .js files. I zipped the dist contents along with node modules, webpack.config.js and package.json and uploaded it. When i try to test it, am getting the following error. But there is no error in the code as far as i checked.</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
    "errorType": "Runtime.UserCodeSyntaxError",
    "errorMessage": "SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module",
    "trace": [
      "Runtime.UserCodeSyntaxError: SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module",
      "    at _loadUserApp (/var/runtime/UserFunction.js:98:13)",
      "    at Object.module.exports.load (/var/runtime/UserFunction.js:140:17)",
      "    at Object.&lt;anonymous&gt; (/var/runtime/index.js:43:30)",
      "    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:956:30)",
      "    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:973:10)",
      "    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:812:32)",
      "    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:724:14)",
      "    at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1025:10)",
      "    at internal/main/run_main_module.js:17:11"
    ]
  }
  </code></pre>