[BUG]

[paragmightybear]

Summary:

Get this critical error when building a Dynamoose project with a Next.JS Typescript project.

./node_modules/dynamoose/dist/utils/importPackage.js
Critical dependency: the request of a dependency is an expression

Import trace for requested module:
./node_modules/dynamoose/dist/utils/importPackage.js
./node_modules/dynamoose/dist/utils/index.js
./node_modules/dynamoose/dist/index.js
...

Code sample:

Schema

export const PlayerProfileSchema = new Schema({
	"player-id": {
		type: String,
		hashKey: true,
	},
	"email-address": {
		type: String,
	},
	"profile-pic-url": {
		type: String,
		required: false,
	},
	"accept-tos-time": {
		type: Number,
	},
	"accepts-marketing": {
		type: Boolean,
		default: false,
	},
	"last-updated": {
		type: Number,
		required: true,
	},
});

Model

export const PlayerProfile = model(playerProfilesTableName, PlayerProfileSchema, {
	create: false,
});

General

While this dosesn't cause any runtime issues, it still throws a critical dependency warning at build time

Current output and behavior (including stack trace):

./node_modules/dynamoose/dist/utils/importPackage.js
Critical dependency: the request of a dependency is an expression

Import trace for requested module:
./node_modules/dynamoose/dist/utils/importPackage.js
./node_modules/dynamoose/dist/utils/index.js
./node_modules/dynamoose/dist/index.js
...

Expected output and behavior:

No errors on building a next project

Environment:

Operating System: MacOS
Operating System Version: Ventura 13.1
Node.js version (node -v): v20.2.0
NPM version: (npm -v): 9.6.6
Dynamoose version: 3.2.0

Other information (if applicable):

Other:

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• I have searched through the GitHub issues (including closed issues) and pull requests to ensure this issue has not already been raised before
• I have searched the internet and Stack Overflow to ensure this issue hasn't been raised or answered before
• I have tested the code provided and am confident it doesn't work as intended
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• I am running the latest version of Dynamoose

[zetorama]

It seems to be related to how dynamoose imports dynamoose-logger via non-static require(name) call, and because Next.js uses webpack (which requires static imports to bundle the code), the error comes from it.

This is what helped me to resolve the issue – adding it to serverComponentsExternalPackages in the next.config.js:

/** @type {import('next').NextConfig} */
const config = {
  ...
  experimental: {
    // Next.js is getting issues trying to compile dynamoose, so need to opt-out it from bundling
    serverComponentsExternalPackages: ['dynamoose'],
  },
};