Error while building project due to stale/unupdated dependencies in @microsoft/ocsdk

[aanand07]

After installing latest version 1.1.1-main.2f608b7 and building the project, I'm getting below error

I looked into it and found that @microsoft/ocsdk has dependency on webpack 4, and from error log

BREAKING CHANGE: webpack < 5 used to include polyfills for node.js core modules by default.
This is no longer the case. Verify if you need this module and configure a polyfill for it.

So we need to update the dependencies in @microsoft/ocsdk project.

Note:- I was able to work the around the issue by following the suggestions, and added below in my webpack config after installing both dependencies.

fallback: {
       crypto: require.resolve('crypto-browserify'),
       stream: require.resolve('stream-browserify'),
     },

[xTEddie]

webpack is a dev dependency which means, it's just being installed on development and not in production. webpack is being used to build the CDN package.

On v4, the node modules (crypto, stream, etc) were part of webpack, which means users won't have to manually install them to be able to use them. On v5, these dependencies are no longer part of webpack, so it must be manually installed.

It's by design by webpack v5.

[aanand07]

Thanks for your reply @xTEddie .

Shouldn't the dependencies be resolved and fixed in the library itself, instead of expecting the end user to fix/workaround it.
Least we could have this limitation/prerequisite mentioned in Readme file for the end user to work around this.

I was trying to fix the issue in @microsoft/ocsdk by upgrading the packages and replacing crypto with crypto-browserify in SDK.ts but it has a indirect dependency on node.js core module stream in cipher-base.