Module not found: Can't resolve 'multicodec/src/name-table'

[polluterofminds]

Describe the bug

After installing 3box (npm i 3box) and requiring it in a React project (const Box = require('3box')), the module error referenced is thrown:

Module not found: Can't resolve 'multicodec/src/name-table'

I tried to manually install the multicodec module but that didn't resolve the problem. Downgrading to 1.13.2 (which was the last version I worked with) allows me to keep working, but I'd like to work on the most recent release.

I'm on MacOS Catalina. Error happens across all browsers.

[polluterofminds]

The issue appears to be tied to the ipfs-bitswap library which is a 3box dependency. It is referencing the multicodec/src/name-table file which does not seem to exist.

[oed]

Thanks @jehunter5811, I'm not sure why this is happening for you. What does your build process look like? Perhaps @oznekenzo can provide some help here!

[polluterofminds]

I just tried again with a fresh project. Here's the flow:

npx create-react-app app-name
cd app-name
npm i 3box

In app.js, simply adding the following line causes this error as soon as the app is run:

const Box = require('3box')

[jcastro-geodb]

The version of ipfs-bitswap should be updated to 0.26.2 to fix this issue, they released a hotfix to address it (https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-bitswap/releases/tag/v0.26.2). It seems that updating to ipfs 0.40.0 should fix the issue (https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/releases/tag/v0.40.0)

[oznekenzo]

A similar problem I experienced was with a depency updating a file from .js to .json and the file type was not accepted in the webpack configs, had to update to include json:

resolve: {
    extensions: ['.js', '.jsx', '.scss', '.svg', '.css', '.json'] 
  },   

[oed]

@jcastro-geodb Thanks for the info! We're still hesitant to update the js-ipfs version at this point since we need to make sure it doesn't break anything in OrbitDB.

Hopefully the problem can be solved by what @oznekenzo suggested. Lmk if there are still any issue here!

[oznekenzo]

After further inspection, the fix I suggested was for an issue in the same library but with a different file: multicodec/src/base-table.json - a fix for an issue with /name-table was suggested elsewhere: Downgrade multicodec to version 0.5.6 before required file was removed

[JasoonS]

@oznekenzo is correct here. Quick fix is to run npm i multicodec@0.5.6

[oed]

We are currently working on a fix for this by updating ipfs to the latest version.

[adamsoffer]

Hey @oed 👋- has this been addressed in the latest release?

update: nevermind looks like that PR is still open.

[oed]

@adamsoffer yeah, it's still not released. Aiming to have it out this week. If you really need it right now you can try npm i 3box@next

[oed]

This is fixed in the new version of 3box-js since ipfs was updated to the latest version.