Solana Test Program Anchor Test failing tsconfig.json" > needs an import assertion of type "json" - testing

Question

I ran anchor test --skip-deploy and all it should do is initialize my program, but all I get is this error, that I cannot resolve. I checked the tsconfig.json settings they should be fine. This is just the default anchor setup and I'm not importing any unusual JSON files anywhere.
anchor test --skip-deploy BPF SDK:
/Users/julia/.local/share/solana/install/releases/1.9.5/solana-release/bin/sdk/bpf
cargo-build-bpf child: rustup toolchain list -v cargo-build-bpf child:
cargo +bpf build --target bpfel-unknown-unknown --release warning:
unused variable: ctx --> programs/feeRedeemCounter/src/lib.rs:8:23
| 8 | pub fn initialize(ctx: Context) -> ProgramResult
{ | ^^^ help: if this is intentional, prefix
it with an underscore: _ctx | = note:
#[warn(unused_variables)] on by default
warning: feeRedeemCounter (lib) generated 1 warning
Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 1.28s cargo-build-bpf child:
/Users/julia/.local/share/solana/install/releases/1.9.5/solana-release/bin/sdk/bpf/dependencies/bpf-tools/llvm/bin/llvm-readelf
--dyn-symbols /Users/julia/Downloads/anchorTutorial/feeRedeemCounter/target/deploy/fee_redeem_counter.so
To deploy this program: $ solana program deploy
/Users/julia/Downloads/anchorTutorial/feeRedeemCounter/target/deploy/fee_redeem_counter.so
The program address will default to this keypair (override with
--program-id): /Users/julia/Downloads/anchorTutorial/feeRedeemCounter/target/deploy/fee_redeem_counter-keypair.json
yarn run v1.22.17 warning package.json: No license field $
/Users/julia/Downloads/anchorTutorial/feeRedeemCounter/node_modules/.bin/ts-mocha
-p ./tsconfig.json -t 1000000 'tests/**/*.ts'
TypeError: Module
"file:///Users/julia/Downloads/anchorTutorial/feeRedeemCounter/tsconfig.json"
needs an import assertion of type "json"
at new NodeError (node:internal/errors:371:5)
at validateAssertions (node:internal/modules/esm/assert:82:15)
at defaultLoad (node:internal/modules/esm/load:24:3)
at ESMLoader.load (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:359:26)
at ESMLoader.moduleProvider (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:280:58)
at new ModuleJob (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:66:26)
at ESMLoader.#createModuleJob (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:297:17)
at ESMLoader.getModuleJob (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:261:34)
at async Promise.all (index 0)
at ESMLoader.import (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:337:24)
at importModuleDynamicallyWrapper (node:internal/vm/module:437:15)
at formattedImport (/Users/julia/Downloads/anchorTutorial/feeRedeemCounter/node_modules/mocha/lib/nodejs/esm-utils.js:7:14)
at Object.exports.requireOrImport (/Users/julia/Downloads/anchorTutorial/feeRedeemCounter/node_modules/mocha/lib/nodejs/esm-utils.js:48:32)
at Object.exports.loadFilesAsync (/Users/julia/Downloads/anchorTutorial/feeRedeemCounter/node_modules/mocha/lib/nodejs/esm-utils.js:103:20)
at singleRun (/Users/julia/Downloads/anchorTutorial/feeRedeemCounter/node_modules/mocha/lib/cli/run-helpers.js:125:3)
at Object.exports.handler (/Users/julia/Downloads/anchorTutorial/feeRedeemCounter/node_modules/mocha/lib/cli/run.js:374:5)
error Command failed with exit code 1. info Visit
https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this
command. Error: Program address not found.

Answer 1

I fixed my own problem by running
yarn add ts-mocha

Answer 2

yarn add ts-mocha
This did not work for me. I deleted the package-lock.json and then updated the npm packages to the latest
"devDependencies": {
"#types/chai": "^4.3.4",
"#types/mocha": "^10.0.1",
"#types/node": "^18.11.18",
"chai": "^4.3.7",
"mocha": "^10.2.0",
"ts-mocha": "^10.0.0",
"typescript": "^4.9.5"
then updated the provider code:
import * as anchor from "#project-serum/anchor";
const provider = anchor.AnchorProvider.env();
anchor.setProvider(provider);