4.x - min.js build error

[luu-alex]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Current Behavior

running into a build error with CRA. browser build issue that needs to be investigated

Expected Behavior

Should work fine

Steps to Reproduce

create CRA project with 4.x

Web3.js Version

4

Environment

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Anything Else?

No response

[jdevcs]

Seems create react app doesn't fully support ESM out of box. facebook/create-react-app#10933
@luu-alex can you force via config to load CJS from 4.x lib or try https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-app-rewired-esm

Its due to ESM, fully qualified names are required in our lib code and we can hint node for that using --experimental-specifier-resolution=node #5904 (comment) , but in case of CRA its not considering this flag.

[luu-alex]

Now we stopped running into esm issues, its back being polyfill errors like in 1.x, i think we could get rid of the polyfills after the release and work on that. not sure how hard that would be, i think marin said it might take some work.

I dont think forcing cjs will work since its a polyfill issue, I think if people want to use web3js in CRA or angular we can provide them a cdn min.js build. thoughts?

[luu-alex]

esm issue is now fixed, Created new issue to remove the polyfills