style: silence error for old-style require statements

This will be removed once we migrate to typescript

.eslintrc.js

@@ -7,5 +7,8 @@ module.exports = {
   },
   parser: '@typescript-eslint/parser',
   plugins: ['@typescript-eslint', 'prettier'],
-  extends: ['eslint:recommended', "plugin:@typescript-eslint/recommended"]
+  extends: ['eslint:recommended', "plugin:@typescript-eslint/recommended"],
+  rules: {
+    "@typescript-eslint/no-var-requires": "off"
+  }
 };