problem with arweave dep that's 1.11.4 (and potentially 1.11.1 - 1.11.4)

[philipqnguyen]

Error when running arkb with recent changes to arweave package.

/Users/philip/.nvm/versions/node/v16.15.1/lib/node_modules/arkb/node_modules/arweave/web/lib/crypto/webcrypto-driver.js:10
            throw new Error("SubtleCrypto not available!");
            ^

Error: SubtleCrypto not available!
    at new WebCryptoDriver (/Users/philip/.nvm/versions/node/v16.15.1/lib/node_modules/arkb/node_modules/arweave/web/lib/crypto/webcrypto-driver.js:10:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/philip/.nvm/versions/node/v16.15.1/lib/node_modules/arkb/node_modules/arweave/web/common.js:120:18)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1105:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1159:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1005:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/philip/.nvm/versions/node/v16.15.1/lib/node_modules/arkb/node_modules/arweave/web/lib/deepHash.js:3:18)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1105:14)

This seems to be the case with a fresh install of arkb with a resolved dependency of arweave@1.11.4. In order to avoid this error, I forced the dependency to arweave@1.10.23 and to smartweave@0.4.48 (the latter is needed because smartweave@0.4.49 has a dependency on arweave@1.11.4). I haven't tried arweave 1.11.1 - 1.11.3, but I suspect it's similar to 1.11.4.

This happened to me on node 18.3.0 and 16.15.1

[Dhaiwat10]

@philipqnguyen I'm facing the same error. I'm curious to learn how you forced the dependencies to a lower version?

[fuadop]

Hi this is related to textury/arlocal#106

[ries9112]

Facing this same issue

[philipqnguyen]

@Dhaiwat10, I actually have arkb installed locally to a project using yarn and not global (but I have tested in both local and global install and this SubtleCrypto error is raised in both cases). To avoid the error, I was able to force the dependency to avoid using arweave@1.11.x by utilizing resolutions field in my package.json:

  "dependencies": {
    "arkb": "*"
  },
  "resolutions": {
    "arweave": "1.10.23",
    "smartweave": "0.4.48"
  }

Note that yarn respects resolutions but I'm not sure about npm. There might be a way to set the resolution in a global install, but I'm not sure.

[ries9112]

This did not fix the issue on my end