Error when authenticating user with token

[K9Developer]

Please avoid duplicates

• I checked all open bugs and none of them matched my problem.

Reproducible test case

Not sure

Please select the environment(s) that are relevant to your bug report

• TypeScript
• Enterprise
• Browsers
• Node
• Deno

Version

octokit version: 2.0.10

imported: import { Octokit, App } from "octokit";

What happened?

I'm trying to use Octokit with react native, so I installed it, this step goes well, then imported, this one too goes well, but when running const octokit = new Octokit({ auth: token }); It errors and says:

Error: Unable to resolve module crypto from ... crypto could not be found within the project or in these directories:

What could be the problem?

(NodeJS version: 18.8.0)

Would you be interested in contributing a fix?

• yes

[gr2m]

This is most likely a problem with webpack bundling, I think there were a few issues in the past about it. crypto should not make it into the browser build. Maybe this issue will help? gr2m/universal-github-app-jwt#38

[K9Developer]

This is most likely a problem with webpack bundling, I think there were a few issues in the past about it. crypto should not make it into the browser build. Maybe this issue will help? gr2m/universal-github-app-jwt#38

Hi, I'm VERY new to react native... I'm not even sure I know what a web pack is. Could you maybe walk me a bit through it?

[gr2m]

Unfortunately I don't have experience with React Native either. Webpack is used to bundle the code from octokit and its dependencies together with your React Native app's code, so that it can be run together on a device. But some dependencies such as https://github.com/gr2m/universal-github-app-jwt/ need to run different code for different environments (e.g. node or browsers). In your case, I assume React Native should get the browser code, but it bundles the Node code instead. When you want to run the app, you then get the error that the crypto module doesn't exist (which is a native Node module).

I'm sorry I can't help better. I'm sure other folks used Octokit with React Native in the past, maybe look for open source projects for reference?

You can also try and use @octokit/core instead of octokit, as it doesn't have the dependency on universal-github-app-jwt and hence shouldn't run into the particular problem you ran into

[K9Developer]

@gr2m Thanks, I will try using @octokit/core

EDIT: Thank you! It worked like a charm!!!