Cypress - plugin import error - Object.setPropertyOf: expected an object or null, got undefined

Question

In Cypress, I have imported a plugin inside support/index.js

const chai = require('chai')
const chaiResponseValidator = require('chai-openapi-response-validator');
chai.use(chaiResponseValidator('./data.json'));

It triggers an error: > Object.setPrototypeOf: expected an object or null, got undefined

I also tried to workaround the fs error with code like this:

const fs = require('fs');
const data = fs.readFileSync('./data.json', 'utf8');
//const data = require('./data.json');
chai.use(chaiResponseValidator(data));

But it didn't help.