Unbundle-able libraries fail with cryptic error ("TypeError: Invalid URL")

I tried this:

I wrote a Wing app that uses the crypto-hash npm library:

// main.w
bring cloud;

class Util {
  pub extern "./util.js" static inflight hash(query: str): str;
}

test "getUrl" {
  log(Util.hash("hello"));
}

Extern code:

import { sha256 } from "crypto-hash";

export const hash = async (query) => {
    return sha256(query, { outputFormat: "hex" });
}

This happened:

When I run wing test I get this error:

fail ┌ main.wsim » root/Default/test:getUrl
     │ Error: TypeError: Invalid URL
     │    --> target/test/main.wsim/.wing/handler_c8e701de.sandbox.cjs.bundle/index.cjs:10:56
     │    | var __hasOwnProp = Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty;
     │    | var __name = (target, value) => __defProp(target, "name", { value, configurable: true });
     │    | var __esm = (fn, res) => function __init() {
     │ 10 |   return fn && (res = (0, fn[__getOwnPropNames(fn)[0]])(fn = 0)), res;
     │    |                                                        ^
     │ at __init /Users/chrisr/dev/wing-test/target/test/main.wsim/.wing/handler_c8e701de.sandbox.cjs.bundle/index.cjs:10:56
     │ at js /Users/chrisr/dev/wing-test/util.js:1:1
     │ at __init /Users/chrisr/dev/wing-test/target/test/main.wsim/.wing/handler_c8e701de.sandbox.cjs.bundle/index.cjs:10:56
     │ at hash /Users/chrisr/dev/wing-test/main.w:4:3
     └ at /Users/chrisr/dev/wing-test/main.w:8:3

Worse, if I compile this to a cloud target like tf-aws, it will happily bundle the code even though it will fail at runtime.

I expected this:

I expected the example to work, or to have a more helpful error

Is there a workaround?

Avoid using npm libraries that use features which prevent their code from being bundled like import.meta.url

Anything else?

No response

Wing Version

0.83.8

Node.js Version

20.12.2

Platform(s)

MacOS

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Unbundle-able libraries fail with cryptic error ("TypeError: Invalid URL") #7073