How to integrate Payload to NestJS project

[smew-tech]

How to integrate Payload to NestJS project
I try but not working

/Volumes/Work/project/cms/src/main.ts:36
  await payload.initAsync({
                ^
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'initAsync')
    at bootstrap (/Volumes/Work/project/cms/src/main.ts:36:17)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)

import { NestFactory } from '@nestjs/core';
import { AppModule } from './app.module';
import * as cookieParser from 'cookie-parser';
import * as passport from 'passport';
import payload from 'payload';
import * as session from 'express-session';
import {ExpressAdapter} from '@nestjs/platform-express';
import * as express from 'express';

async function bootstrap() {
  
  const expressApp = express();
  const adapter = new ExpressAdapter(expressApp);

  const app = await NestFactory.create(AppModule, adapter);
  app.use(cookieParser());

  // Authentication & Session
  app.use(
    session({
      secret: process.env.AUTH_SESSION_SECRET || 'secret', // to sign session id
      resave: false,
      saveUninitialized: false,
      rolling: true, // keep session alive
      cookie: {
        maxAge: process.env.AUTH_SESSION_EXPIRES_IN_SECONDS
          ? parseInt(process.env.AUTH_SESSION_EXPIRES_IN_SECONDS) * 1000
          : 3600 * 1000,
        httpOnly: true, // so that cookie can't be accessed via client-side script
      },
    }),
  );
  app.use(passport.initialize());
  app.use(passport.session());

  // await payload.initAsync({
	// 	secret: process.env.PAYLOAD_SECRET,
	// 	mongoURL: process.env.MONGODB_URI,
	// 	express: expressApp,
	// 	onInit: async () => {
	// 		payload.logger.info(`Payload Admin URL: ${payload.getAdminURL()}`);
	// 	},
	// });

  await app.listen(3000);
}

bootstrap();

[jmikrut]

This is a problem with your implementation and not Payload, so I'll bump this over to a Discussion for now. But it looks to be an issue with how you're importing Payload. Outside of that, I'm not sure there's much I can see wrong here. Do you have Payload installed?