Cloudflare Developers•14mo ago

use node `stream` or workaround for sveltekit in CF?

i'm using sveltekit with CF. i'm having an issue when i import the stl npm package with import stl from 'stl';, i can run locally but it breaks on CloudFlare with this error (https://www.npmjs.com/package/stl)

[ERROR] Could not resolve "stream"
...
08:40:21.555      The package "stream" wasn't found on the file system but is built into node. Are you trying to bundle for node? You can use "platform: 'node'" to do that, which will remove this error.
08:40:21.556    
08:40:21.557    ✘ [ERROR] Could not resolve "stream"
08:40:21.557    
08:40:21.557        node_modules/through/index.js:1:21:
08:40:21.557          1 │ var Stream = require('stream')
08:40:21.557            ╵

[ERROR] Could not resolve "stream"
...
08:40:21.555      The package "stream" wasn't found on the file system but is built into node. Are you trying to bundle for node? You can use "platform: 'node'" to do that, which will remove this error.
08:40:21.556    
08:40:21.557    ✘ [ERROR] Could not resolve "stream"
08:40:21.557    
08:40:21.557        node_modules/through/index.js:1:21:
08:40:21.557          1 │ var Stream = require('stream')
08:40:21.557            ╵

the advice i'm getting from Cursor.sh (GPT-4) is below: The error message indicates that the package stream is not found in your project's dependencies. The stream module is a built-in Node.js module, and it seems like your project is trying to bundle it for the browser, which is causing the error. To fix this issue, you can use the resolve option in Vite's configuration to alias the stream module to a browser-compatible version. You can use the stream-browserify package for this. First, install stream-browserify:

npm install --save stream-browserify

npm install --save stream-browserify

Then, update your vite.config.js file to include the following:

import { defineConfig } from 'vite'

export default defineConfig({
  // other config
  resolve: {
    alias: {
      stream: 'stream-browserify'
    }
  }
})

import { defineConfig } from 'vite'

export default defineConfig({
  // other config
  resolve: {
    alias: {
      stream: 'stream-browserify'
    }
  }
})

This will tell Vite to use stream-browserify whenever stream is imported, which should resolve the error. --- this seems like an odd issue, maybe i just need to update node? is stream-browserify really necessary? (following these instructions still gives the same error)

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9 Replies

kian•14mo ago

Workers aren't Node, and so don't have Node built-in modules. A limited subset of modules are available via the nodejs_compat compatibility flag, https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runtime-apis/nodejs/, which includes node:stream. If you can tell Vite that stream should load node:stream, and enable that compatibility flag, it might work. It's possible that the library wants more than just stream though.

rawwerksOP•14mo ago

so something like this?

export default defineConfig({
  // other config
  resolve: {
    alias: {
      stream: 'node:stream'
    }
  }
})

export default defineConfig({
  // other config
  resolve: {
    alias: {
      stream: 'node:stream'
    }
  }
})

kian•14mo ago

Possibly, I haven't used Vite (or that option) myself but on paper it should work. stream would work in Node but Cloudflare's nodejs_compat flag makes it available as node:stream, not just stream - so bundlers need to rewrite the imports.

rawwerksOP•14mo ago

ok . what about adding https://www.npmjs.com/package/stream to my package.json? i fixed buffer this way...

kian•14mo ago

Buffer is in nodejs_compat as well. Old polyfills aren't generally recommended versus the built-in ones from nodejs_compat

rawwerksOP•14mo ago

ok so your guidance would be like this?

import {Readable,Transform} from 'node:stream';
import { Buffer } from 'node:buffer';

import {Readable,Transform} from 'node:stream';
import { Buffer } from 'node:buffer';

kian•14mo ago

Yes, for your own code - in the case of dependencies like through (via stl) then you need to somehow tell that dependency to use node:stream rather than stream, which Vite should be able to do.

rawwerksOP•14mo ago

ok thanks i'll dig in some more. i just added the flag to my pages instance and can build from there. some work ahead of me:

09:47:47.932    > Using @sveltejs/adapter-cloudflare
09:47:48.948    ✘ [ERROR] Could not resolve "node:stream"
09:47:48.948    
09:47:48.949        .svelte-kit/output/server/entries/pages/_page.svelte.js:6:7:
09:47:48.949          6 │ import "node:stream";
09:47:48.949            ╵        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
09:47:48.949    
09:47:48.949      The package "node:stream" wasn't found on the file system but is built into node. Are you trying to bundle for node? You can use "platform: 'node'" to do that, which will remove this error.
09:47:48.949    
09:47:48.949    ✘ [ERROR] Could not resolve "node:buffer"

09:47:47.932    > Using @sveltejs/adapter-cloudflare
09:47:48.948    ✘ [ERROR] Could not resolve "node:stream"
09:47:48.948    
09:47:48.949        .svelte-kit/output/server/entries/pages/_page.svelte.js:6:7:
09:47:48.949          6 │ import "node:stream";
09:47:48.949            ╵        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
09:47:48.949    
09:47:48.949      The package "node:stream" wasn't found on the file system but is built into node. Are you trying to bundle for node? You can use "platform: 'node'" to do that, which will remove this error.
09:47:48.949    
09:47:48.949    ✘ [ERROR] Could not resolve "node:buffer"

kian•14mo ago

Ah, yeah - Wrangler's esbuild config marks node: as external when using nodejs_compat but Svelte's config doesn't (https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/blob/master/packages/adapter-cloudflare/index.js#L61)

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