cannot import module I created in node

I can’t figure out why this import is failing. I have tried everything I can think of, changed the export and import to every single tutorial I can find online, and every single time it fails. Theoretically this should be very simple….

server.js

import express from 'express'
import sqlite3 from 'sqlite3'
import fetch from 'node-fetch'
import config from './config'

//rest of my code here...

config.js

const config = {
  url: "my url string here",
  port: 5000,
  callbackURL: "another url here"
}
export default config

in my package.json file I do have "type": "module" in there and all the imports from the node modules work just fine, it just fails on the config import. When I try to run the code above I get…
Error [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find module '{path}/config' imported from '{path}/server.js… Did you mean to import ..config.js? But there is no ../config.js, both server.js and config.js are in the same directory

I figured this should be something easy, I just need to import a module that I am creating, but nothing works, it always tells me if can’t find the module config. I’ve tried changing the name thinking maybe config was reserved. So I changed to settings.js, same thing, Cannot find module settings.
I’ve tried changing the export to numerous ways, stuff like…
config.js

const config = {
  url: "my urls",
  port: 5000,
  callbackURL: "another"
}
export { config }

then changing my import to import { config } from './config'. Same thing. I've tried removing the ./` in front of config, same thing. I’m pretty lost, any help would be really appreciated. Thank you.

Just for extra information here is my actual package.json…

{
  "name": "my_test_app",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "server.js",
  "type": "module",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo "Error: no test specified" && exit 1",
    "start": "node server.js"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "express": "^4.18.2",
    "node-fetch": "^2.7.0",
    "request": "^2.88.2",
    "sqlite3": "^5.1.6"
  }
}

And I am trying to run it with npm start in terminal