How to import npm packages when they don't supply any help to do so?

I've run into this problem a million times.

I find an npm package I want to use, but it doesn't have a readme or any help on how to import it after I install it. So I try a bunch of different methods, in this case I want to use a package called react-gifplayer.

Looking through the package I see that the author exports it as Gifplayer:

module.exports = Gifplayer

But when I try to import it I only get errors back. These are the ways I try:

import Gifplayer from 'react-gifplayer'

import { Gifplayer } from 'react-gifplayer'

const Gifplayer = require('react-gifplayer')

const Gifplayer = Npm.require('react-gifplayer')

The error I get is

SyntaxError: Unexpected reserved word

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