Browserify fails to resolve default node module used within an external package

[Abdullah-03]

When the command "browserify main.js -o bundle.js" is run for main.js (see below)

const google = require('googleapis')

async function runSample() {
  const drive = google.drive({
    version: 'v2',
    headers: {
      Authorization: `Bearer authToken`,
    },
  })

  // Make an authorized request to list Drive files.
  const res = await drive.files.list()

  return res
}

runSample().catch(console.error)

it throws the error:

Error: Can't walk dependency graph: ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat 'C:\project\process'
required by C:\project\node_modules\googleapis-common\build\src\http2.js

Browserify seems to be looking in the wrong directory for the module, what gives?

These are the imports of the 'node_modules\googleapis-common\build\src\http2.js' file, which uses the node:process module:

Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true });
exports.closeSession = exports.request = exports.sessions = void 0;
const http2 = require("http2");
const zlib = require("zlib");
const url_1 = require("url");
const qs = require("qs");
const extend = require("extend");
const stream_1 = require("stream");
const util = require("util");
const process = require("process");
const common_1 = require("gaxios/build/src/common");
const { HTTP2_HEADER_CONTENT_ENCODING, HTTP2_HEADER_CONTENT_TYPE, HTTP2_HEADER_METHOD, HTTP2_HEADER_PATH, HTTP2_HEADER_STATUS, } = http2.constants;
const DEBUG = !!process.env.HTTP2_DEBUG;

[ljharb]

It's using process, not node:process - but that's a global and shouldn't need to be required at all, but i'd also expect that to work fine.

Can you provide the full stack trace from the error?

[Abdullah-03]

Those the only lines of error I get, can you explain how to get full stack trace? Is there a flag for it?

[ljharb]

hm, not that i know of. if you edit that line on disk (just temporarily) to require the require of process, does everything work?

[Abdullah-03]

const process = require(require("process"));

Same error as before.

[ljharb]

oh sorry i meant "remove" :-p like delete that line entirely

[Abdullah-03]

lol, was wondering what that would achieve.

Ok, now after removing that line, it compiles bundle.js

very strange.