Node js application crashes with `ipfs-http-client` without error message

[amrap030]

• Version: 60.0.0

• Platform: Darwin mbp.local 21.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 21.6.0: Sat Jun 18 17:07:22 PDT 2022; root:xnu-8020.140.41~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64

• Subsystem: ipfs-http-client

Severity: Critical

Description:

I tried to use ipfs-http-client in node js (version v18.13.0) with typescript but the application crashes without any error message as soon as I call the create function.

Steps to reproduce the error:

The error happens at the create function as follows:

import { create } from "ipfs-http-client";

const ipfs = create({
  host: "localhost",
  port: 5001,
  protocol: "http"
})

[whizzzkid]

js-ipfs is being deprecated in favor of Helia. You can follow the migration plan here https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/issues/4336 and read the migration guide.

Please feel to reopen with any comments before 2023-06-05. We will do a final pass on reopened issues afterward (see https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/issues/4336).