App Router: Application crashes with client-side exeption on dynamic import failure

[TxHawks]

Link to the code that reproduces this issue

https://github.com/Txhawks/missing-chunk-error

To Reproduce

The reproduction imports a Foo component using next/dynamic. When the network request to foo.js fails, the whole app comes down crashing.

1. Navigate to https://missing-chunk-error.vercel.app/
2. In the Network tab in the dev tools, block the request for 201.e0005a340046428d.js
3. Reload the page, which will result in a ChunkLoadError: Loading chunk 38 failed. client-side error.

This isn't limited to Vercel and can be reproduced locally with next build && next start as well.

Current vs. Expected behavior

As explained above, any failure in loading a component with next/dynamic causes an error that is entirely irrecoverable in the client, and which crashes the entire app. Even Doing something like this doesn't help:

'use client';

import dynamic from "next/dynamic";

let Foo: React.ComponentType = () => null;

try {
  const TempFoo = dynamic(() => import("./foo"), { ssr: false });
  Foo = TempFoo;
}
catch (e) {
  console.error(e);
}

export default function ComponentPicker() {
  return <Foo />;
}

Dynamic imports are susceptible to network flaws and causing of an irrecoverable client error for something like this makes applications extremely brittle.

Provide environment information

Operating System:
  Platform: darwin
  Arch: arm64
  Version: Darwin Kernel Version 23.4.0: Fri Mar 15 00:10:42 PDT 2024; root:xnu-10063.101.17~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000
  Available memory (MB): 65536
  Available CPU cores: 10
Binaries:
  Node: 20.10.0
  npm: 10.2.3
  Yarn: 1.22.19
  pnpm: 8.15.4
Relevant Packages:
  next: 14.2.0-canary.50 // Latest available version is detected (14.2.0-canary.50).
  eslint-config-next: N/A
  react: 18.2.0
  react-dom: 18.2.0
  typescript: 5.4.3
Next.js Config:
  output: N/A

Which area(s) are affected? (Select all that apply)

App Router, Dynamic imports (next/dynamic)

Which stage(s) are affected? (Select all that apply)

next start (local)

Additional context

I've seen #54008, and this does seem similar, but seems to not be the same. I tried against 13.5.5 which the issue mentions, and it fails in the same way there.

[TxHawks]

Looking at the call stack, it seems like the error comes from here: https://github.com/webpack/webpack/blob/23c39437617d5ff8de4120911e728b0f56a5fed5/lib/web/JsonpChunkLoadingRuntimeModule.js#L177

And when stepping through the code, the last line I could get to was the setTimeout on line 201 here: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/blob/canary/packages/next/src/shared/lib/loadable.shared-runtime.tsx#L196-L207

[Dwlad90]

Changing installedChunkData[1](error); to console.error(error); in https://github.com/webpack/webpack/blob/23c39437617d5ff8de4120911e728b0f56a5fed5/lib/web/JsonpChunkLoadingRuntimeModule.js#L193 seems to superficially fix the issue and blocking the chunk no longer causes the application to crash.

[john-subba]

while using next/dynamic do u have this type of code with your file paths in page source?. while clicking view page source.

[TxHawks]

@john-subba I'm not sure what you're asking, but I think your issue might be different and related to #64386

[john-subba]

@TxHawks while using next/dynamic this appears in your page source. I mean to ask does this appear in your website page source too?. While clicking view page source.

[TxHawks]

You can look at the reproduction code here: https://github.com/Txhawks/missing-chunk-error

And at a deployed version of it here: https://missing-chunk-error.vercel.app/

[pranavks]

We're facing the same. Got a lot of ChunkLoadErrors in Sentry. After the dynamic imports were removed they're gone. Waiting for a fix.

[dbstjddbwls]

Datadog Error Tracking is also talking about the same problem.

I'm using Next^14.2.5 and some users have the same problem even though there was no web deployment.