Skill Issue Dev | Dax the Dev · Apr 1, 2026
ESM crypto import in Vite — stop using `require()`
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Vite 5 with "type": "module" rejects require("crypto") . Symptom: dev server boots, prod build silently drops the crypto import, runtime crashes on first signature verify. No warning at build time. Fix: import { createHash } from "node:crypto" (the node: prefix matters too — without it, the bundler tries to find a polyfill called "crypto" and ships ~120KB of extra code). The node: prefix tells…
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