diff --git a/cli.ts b/cli.ts
index 6eead10..aaee99d 100755
--- a/cli.ts
+++ b/cli.ts
@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ import { SitemapAndIndexStream } from './lib/sitemap-index-stream';
 import { URL } from 'url';
 import { createGzip, Gzip } from 'zlib';
 import { ErrorLevel } from './lib/types';
-/* eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires */
-const arg = require('arg');
+import arg from 'arg';
 
 const pickStreamOrArg = (argv: { _: string[] }): Readable => {
   if (!argv._.length) {
@@ -50,9 +49,9 @@ function getStream(): Readable {
   }
 }
 if (argv['--version']) {
-  /* eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires */
-  const packagejson = require('../package.json');
-  console.log(packagejson.version);
+  import('./package.json').then(({ default: packagejson }) => {
+    console.log(packagejson.version);
+  });
 } else if (argv['--help']) {
   console.log(`
 Turn a list of urls into a sitemap xml.
@@ -104,8 +103,8 @@ Use XMLLib to validate your sitemap (requires xmllib)
       }
     });
 } else if (argv['--index']) {
-  const limit: number = argv['--limit'];
-  const baseURL: string = argv['--index-base-url'];
+  const limit: number | undefined = argv['--limit'];
+  const baseURL: string | undefined = argv['--index-base-url'];
   if (!baseURL) {
     throw new Error(
       "You must specify where the sitemaps will be hosted. use --index-base-url 'https://example.com/path'"
diff --git a/lib/errors.ts b/lib/errors.ts
index dd3702c..bea45ff 100644
--- a/lib/errors.ts
+++ b/lib/errors.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-/* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/explicit-module-boundary-types */
 /* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any */
 /*!
  * Sitemap
diff --git a/lib/sitemap-item-stream.ts b/lib/sitemap-item-stream.ts
index 92ec40a..8e9440d 100644
--- a/lib/sitemap-item-stream.ts
+++ b/lib/sitemap-item-stream.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ function attrBuilder(
 
   const iv: StringObj = {};
   return keys.reduce((attrs, key): StringObj => {
-    // eslint-disable-next-line
     if (conf[key] !== undefined) {
       const keyAr = key.split(':');
       if (keyAr.length !== 2) {
diff --git a/lib/utils.ts b/lib/utils.ts
index df86ad2..94c0634 100644
--- a/lib/utils.ts
+++ b/lib/utils.ts
@@ -324,7 +324,6 @@ export function lineSeparatedURLsToSitemapOptions(
   return new ReadlineStream({ input: stream }).pipe(
     new Transform({
       objectMode: true,
-      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/explicit-module-boundary-types
       transform: (line, encoding, cb): void => {
         if (isJSON || (isJSON === undefined && line[0] === '{')) {
           cb(null, JSON.parse(line));
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index bd7d941..d58c008 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -80,4 +80,4 @@
     "node": ">=18.20.3",
     "npm": ">=10.5.0"
   }
-}
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/sitemap-index-parser.test.ts b/tests/sitemap-index-parser.test.ts
index 71a5a9f..0c15ff5 100644
--- a/tests/sitemap-index-parser.test.ts
+++ b/tests/sitemap-index-parser.test.ts
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ import {
 } from '../lib/sitemap-index-parser';
 import { ErrorLevel, IndexItem } from '../lib/types';
 const pipeline = promisify(pipe);
-// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
-const normalizedSample = require('./mocks/sampleconfig-index.normalized.json');
+import normalizedSample from './mocks/sampleconfig-index.normalized.json';
+
 describe('parseSitemapIndex', () => {
   it('parses xml into index-items', async () => {
     const urls = await parseSitemapIndex(
diff --git a/tests/sitemap-parser.test.ts b/tests/sitemap-parser.test.ts
index ee39373..d05b624 100644
--- a/tests/sitemap-parser.test.ts
+++ b/tests/sitemap-parser.test.ts
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ import {
 import { SitemapStreamOptions } from '../lib/sitemap-stream';
 import { ErrorLevel, SitemapItem } from '../lib/types';
 const pipeline = promisify(pipe);
-// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
-const normalizedSample = require('./mocks/sampleconfig.normalized.json');
+import normalizedSample from './mocks/sampleconfig.normalized.json';
+
 describe('parseSitemap', () => {
   it('parses xml into sitemap-items', async () => {
     const urls = await parseSitemap(
diff --git a/tests/xmllint.test.ts b/tests/xmllint.test.ts
index 78664d8..8d01077 100644
--- a/tests/xmllint.test.ts
+++ b/tests/xmllint.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { xmlLint } from '../lib/xmllint';
-// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
-const execFileSync = require('child_process').execFileSync;
+import { execFileSync } from 'child_process';
+
 let hasXMLLint = true;
 try {
   execFileSync('which', ['xmllint']);
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index f2cdf5c..8182c0f 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
     "esModuleInterop": true,
     "moduleResolution": "node",
     "lib": ["es2022"],
-    "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,
+    "resolveJsonModule": true
   },
   "include": ["index.ts", "cli.ts"],
   "exclude": ["node_modules"]