Regression: Importing the package fails in a brand new Vite project

[srmagura]

Minimal repro: https://github.com/srmagura/graphql-repro

The project was created with:

npm create-vite@latest graphql-repro

Then I chose "Vanilla" and "TypeScript" at the prompts.

Install the graphql npm package and add the import

import * as graphql from "graphql";

It produces an error like:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected string (at graphql.js?v=4b27e75c:1248:113)

If you click on the error in the console, you'll see that process.env.NODE_ENV has been replaced with "development".

Let me know if you think this is a Vite issue instead, and I will report it there.

[airhorns]

This got us too -- I think the regexp here is not working quite right: https://github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/main/packages/vite/src/node/plugins/clientInjections.ts#L88-L95 . I think this is a bonified vite bug but because both libraries are so popular this error is going to cause a lot of pain. Worth yanking, or changing the transpilation to work fine with vite out of the box?

[bburr]

Just adding more info - the $ in _globalThis$process seen here is what's not accounted for in the regexp - https://diff.intrinsic.com/graphql/16.6.0/16.7.0#file-jsutils__instanceOf.mjs

So _globalThis$process.env.NODE_ENV gets changed to _globalThis$"development" by Vite

[IvanGoncharov]

@srmagura It's an issue with Vite internals, but I added a workaround for it in 16.7.1
Can you please confirm that it is fixed?

[KangMiSun17]

@IvanGoncharov I was having the same problem and it was solved. Thank you.

[michaelLoeffelmann]

i still have the problem, using the 16.7.1 and vite 2.9.16.
when i undo your fix, it's working.

[lemonmade]

@IvanGoncharov I believe that the issue is still present, even with your change applied:

I believe a more common way of checking whether you are in Node is to do typeof process === 'object', like this: https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/compare/16.x.x...lemonmade:graphql-js:fix-process-env-replacement?expand=1. @rollup/plugin-replace, which is also affected by this issue, actually has special handling for this code pattern: https://github.com/rollup/plugins/tree/master/packages/replace#objectguards.

[dimaMachina]

Why this happens I wrote in #3925

[phryneas]

@lemonmade did you change the default configuration of @rollup/plugin-replace?

According to the documentation on the delimiters option, the default value for that option should guard against deep property access.

Or are you using another bundler and only also mention that rollup plugin?

typeof process is problematic, as some other bundlers that actually look at an AST and don't just do blind string replacement (e.g. esbuild) are not able to replace that at all, as it is a full statement, not just a variable name/access.

[lemonmade]

@phryneas thanks for the response. I checked again and it appears that this issue only affects the development build of Vite, and only up until version 4.2.0. Here's an example showing a slightly older Vite still getting bit by this bug. I can definitely update Vite to fix this for myself, though!

On typeof process — I think bundlers like ESBuild could still replace process with the literal undefined, couldn't they? I imagine that might not be a safe operation since it could conflict with bindings users create themselves, though.

[salcedo]

Error still present on Quasar Framework with Vite

 » Dev mode............... spa
 » Pkg quasar............. v2.12.0
 » Pkg @quasar/app-vite... v1.4.3

├─┬ @quasar/app-vite@1.4.3
│ ├─┬ @quasar/vite-plugin@1.4.0
│ │ ├── @vitejs/plugin-vue@2.3.4 deduped
│ │ ├── vite@2.9.16 deduped

ETA:

├── graphql@16.7.1

Rolling back to 16.6.0 for now but don't know how long that's gonna fly.

[NGPixel]

Same problem here with Quasar + Vite with graphql@16.7.1

[davidsims9t]

I tried rolling back to 16.6.0 and I'm still having the same issue with Vite.

[phryneas]

@davidsims9t in that case, maybe clear your vite cache?

[jptaranto]

Hitting this using Rollup as well as we're replacing the NODE_ENV key for React production builds as per this ancient technique: rollup/rollup#208

The fix for me in this case was to add another replace option for graphql in rollup.config.js:

replace({
  "globalThis.process.env.NODE_ENV": JSON.stringify(process.env.NODE_ENV),
  "process.env.NODE_ENV": JSON.stringify(process.env.NODE_ENV),
  preventAssignment: true,
}),

[slhmy]

I tried rolling back to 16.6.0 and I'm still having the same issue with Vite.

16.5.0 will be fine in my case.

[romanpastu]

I had to downgrade all the way down to 15.6.1 for it to work, for me it failed in graphql 16.6.0 with vite , suddenly out of nowhere while i was developing. After that I have not been bale to do anything to restore it, and I ended up having to test previous version, settled at 15.6.1