lazy-load does not play well with nexe

[jd-carroll]

We are facing an issue using this module with a nexe bundled project. Essentially nexe does not support any type of dynamic module imports.

Is there any specific reason why the transports are setup lazily?

[fredericfalliere]

Same here. Our project bundle with parcel has problem starting because it cannot find colorize because it is imported dynamicly by logform. Culprit piece of code :

/*
 * @api private
 * method {function} exposeFormat
 * Exposes a sub-format on the main format object
 * as a lazy-loaded getter.
 */
function exposeFormat(name, path) {
  path = path || name;
  Object.defineProperty(format, name, {
    get() {
      return require(`./${path}.js`);
    },
    configurable: true
  });
}

Parcel does not support dynamic loading. Anyway, just pilling up on @jd-carroll issue.

[iameli]

Hm yeah. Winston is quite useful for running in a variety of environments, it's a shame that it can't be built with Parcel and such.

[DABH]

logform / winston specify browser fields in package.json which is what bundlers like webpack use instead of the main fields. The versions of the files in browser do not use dynamic imports and so should be fine for your use cases
https://github.com/winstonjs/logform/blob/master/package.json
However, it seems parcel, nexe, etc. (I am not hip with all the bundlers unfortunately) are preferring the main field instead of the browser field, which feels like a bug with them since this is exactly what that field was intended for. Do you know if those bundlers have a similar/analogous field we should be setting in our package.json's? Or is there a way to make them not ignore browser?

[DABH]

Potentially fixed in winstonjs/winston#1640 but need to test...

[JakeDluhy]

Not sure if this helps anyone, but I was having this problem using winston with electron (specifically from the main process, not the renderer). I was able to fix it by adding

resolve: {
  alias: {
    logform$: path.resolve(__dirname, 'node_modules', 'logform', 'dist', 'browser'),
  },
},

to my main process webpack config.

[55Cancri]

Any update to this using parcel? I am using aws-cdk with parcel-bundler@^1 and failing for all format functions including combine.