Question

Nodejs Function import module error

Posted on February 23, 2023
Serverless DigitalOcean Functions Node.js
Asked by johnrediker

I have been trying for the last 5 days to get a simple function to work. Not even the demo examples work and at this point, I think the issue is with DigitalOcean. I am using a Nodejs function to output a string. I try using import a module and this is the error I get: " Error [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find package ‘parse-domain’ imported from /tmp/index.mjs". So I try to change it to require and get this error: “ReferenceError: require is not defined in ES module scope, you can use import instead”. I am using “doctl serverless deploy . --remote-build” in the same directory as the project.yml. I added “type”: “module” in the package.json as well. I have the dependencies listed in there as well. I also ran npm install --package-lock-only parse-domain which didn’t work. I have module.exports.main = checkURL (function name) at the end. There is little to no documentation around DO functions and nodejs other than the examples which again doesn’t even work because I get the same error.

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johnrediker • February 26, 2023

Accepted Answer

Hey Bobby,

Thanks for responding! I did confirm doctl is up to date. The API token I’m using has both read and write permissions. Here is the repo I am using to test: https://github.com/SevenGuru/DO_Functions.

If you do come across something please let me know!

Bobby Iliev

Site Moderator

• February 25, 2023

Hi there,

I’ve just tried deploying one of the example Node.js serverless functions and it seems to be working as expected.

Can you confirm the following:

Make sure you have the latest version of doctl installed on your local machine.
Verify that your API token has write permissions so that the deployment could work as intended.
Can you share the repo containing your serverless function so I could try to have a look and identify any issues that might be causing the problem?

Best,

Bobby

ericruizdeveloper • April 7, 2023

I too have been experiencing this issue with both Python and Node functions. I’m highly disappointed as I love DO products but functions seem to be a big fail on DO part right now.

I wish I could offer some solution but there’s literally no helpful documentation on this. It also took forever to figure out how to switch function namespaces and I’m still confused on how exactly it should be done. Super frustrating.