Build error with v3.1.1: json-refs/index.js" contains a reference to the file "path"

[Gamesh]

API Platform version(s) affected: 3.1.1 yarn version: 1.22.18

Description
Module build failed: Module not found: "./node_modules/json-refs/index.js" contains a reference to the file "path". This file can not be found, please check it for typos or update it if the file got moved.

How to reproduce

• checkout https://github.com/Gamesh/api-platform-453
• yarn build

This started happening after upgrade from 2.8 to 3.1.1

Any ideas?

[alanpoulain]

Could you check your version of @api-platform/api-doc-parser please?

[Gamesh]

@alanpoulain yarn list | grep @api-platform

├─ @api-platform/admin@3.1.1
│  ├─ @api-platform/api-doc-parser@^0.14.3
├─ @api-platform/api-doc-parser@0.14.3

[Gamesh]

strange but it seems by installing a https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-polyfill-webpack-plugin plugin the issue gets resolve, but not sure why i need this, everywhere else require("path") seems to work fine

[alanpoulain]

That's weird, json-refs has been added to api-doc-parser recently. I don't know why its path dependency doesn't have a polyfill by default and why it doesn't work in your specific case.

[Gamesh]

do you want me to add anything extra? webpack config? packages.json? what could help to debug

[alanpoulain]

It could be great if you can reproduce the issue in an empty project.

[Gamesh]

Good morning @alanpoulain i've created a repo with reproducible case https://github.com/Gamesh/api-platform-453

just run yarn build

[jvasseur]

I'm having the same problem with a slightly more detailed error message :

It looks like it's a webpack version/config problem but what I'm doing is just adding @api-platform/admin to a create-react-app project so having the admin fail on such a "standard" installation is quite annoying.

[Gamesh]

strange but it seems by installing a npmjs.com/package/node-polyfill-webpack-plugin plugin the issue gets resolve, but not sure why i need this, everywhere else require("path") seems to work fine

@jvasseur you can workaround it using node-polyfill-webpack-plugin

[jvasseur]

@Gamesh yes but that needs moving out of create-react-app since CRA doesn't allow overriding the webpack config to add plugins.

[alanpoulain]

Should be solved by https://github.com/api-platform/api-doc-parser/pull/114.

[jvasseur]

This is effectively solved in the last version, thanks for taking the time to do it.

[Gamesh]

Awesome 👏 thank you a lot