How do you resolve modules to use the smartsheet npm package on nodejs?

jsyc

I am trying to use the Smartsheet API on nodejs (v8) on windows. When I add the smartsheet npm package, my solution no longer compiles. Easiest way to reproduce (though it reproduces without using create-react-app):

> npx create-react-app solutionname

> cd solutionname

> npm start

It works - your browser comes up with the default page showing.

> npm install --save smartsheet

You now need to reference smartsheet in the project. Open solutionname/src/App.js in your favorite text editor and at the top of the file, under the line that says import './App.css' add a new line, per the API docs:

var client = require('smartsheet');

Save and close the file.

> npm start

The solution no longer compiles. In the browser, you see the following error:

Failed to compile

./node_modules/smartsheet/lib/utils/httpRequestor.js

Module not found: Can't resolve 'request' in 'solutionname\node_modules\smartsheet\lib\utils'

You see the same 'Module not found' error in your console window.

 

I call it out on windows because when you install the smartsheet npm package, you get a missing optional dependency for fsevents that is skipped because the platform is not OSX. FWIW I get this same exact error on Linux Mint.

Any idea of how this can be resolved to work?

thanks

J. Craig Williams

I'd suggest asking this on StackOverflow with the smartsheet-api tag, if no one here answers.

https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=smartsheet-api

Craig

ki.kang73626

I ran into this issue too.  The only way I could see how to get around it is to modify the util/httpRequestor.js file (in the Smartsheet SDK); however, since this is a public SDK, someone else probably came up with a way to do this without having to change it, right?

change:

var request = requestorConfig.request ||

                Promise.promisifyAll(require("request"), {multiArgs: true});

to:

var request = requestorConfig.request ||

                Promise.promisifyAll(require("../request"), {multiArgs: true});