Using built-in node modules

[yahiaboudah]

I tried everything, I put it in installModules in the config, I tried require, I tried import, I tried using plugins, I tried using everything, it's just not working, please help I'm on a deadline

[yahiaboudah]

I even put it in the html, how do I integrate this child process thing?

[justintaylor-dev]

For anyone else who finds this thread, child_process is a built-in node module so it doesn't require bundling.

In Bolt, you can import with import { child_process } from "../lib/node";

[yahiaboudah]

Wait, I tried doing that and it's giving me this error:

src/js/lib/node.ts:15:20 - error TS2307: Cannot find module 'child_process' or its corresponding type declarations.

15 ) as typeof import("child_process");

[yahiaboudah]

For the now the error went away, and I am getting a proper build by adding nodeTypes to vite config in (resolve/alias):
{ find: '@nodeTypes', replacement: path.resolve(__dirname, 'node_modules/@types/node') }
and replacing child_process with "@nodeTypes/child_process".

However I will have to use some kind of placeholder to run in the web since the node stuff only runs within Adobe.

Anyway, thanks for the help

[justintaylor-dev]

Are you running Node.js 16 or up? The /lib/node.ts file already does that by returning a blank object if you're in the browser or the node module if you're in a node environment.

[yahiaboudah]

Node version: v16.13.1