Issue building project with advanced configuration on Node with express and mongoose

Help me!
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Feature(s) impacted

Building of the project is waylaid as Node throws and error on build.

Observed behavior

On build of the server, debug throws the following error:

Uncaught SyntaxError C:\Users\jakec\source\project-root\server\node_modules\@forestadmin\agent\dist\agent.js:187
        if (!experimental?.webhookCustomActions && isProduction) {

Expected behavior

I was expecting the server to build without error.

Context

  • Project name: NFPD
  • Team name: FRSS
  • Environment name: Unsure
  • Agent (forest package) name & version:
    “@forestadmin/agent”: “^1.35.2”,
    “@forestadmin/datasource-mongoose”: “^1.5.25”,
  • Database type: noSQL MongoDB
  • Recent changes made on your end if any: This is the initial integration of this Forest into my project.
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Hello @Jacob_Carpenter and welcome to our community :tada: :tada:,

Can you tell me which version of node you are using? :pray:

Kind regards,

Florian

3

Of Course, we are on Node 18.18.0 but downgrading to 16.13.0 results in the same issue.

4

It’s very strange if your node version is up to date. :thinking: Apparently the optional chaining operator syntax (?. ) has been supported since node version 14. Do you use special things like babel or similar?

5

we use “@babel/eslint-parser”: “7.21.8”

Our babelrc is just a single line
{
“plugins”: [“@babel/plugin-syntax-optional-chaining”]
}

6

I I think your problem is linked to Babel :thinking:, which must not support this type of operator. Can you try updating babel? :pray:

7

I had success just editing out the operator that was throwing errors. I had removed babel entirely but still had the same issue, so I may just need to fork the repo for my particular use case. That said I am having one more issue that I can’t seem to find any resources on. I have a ‘Profile’ Service that acts as a way to peel off sensitive data from my Account model but it seems forest is trying to find a complete DB collection for it. It’s throwing this error:

Uncaught Error Error: Collection ‘Profile’ not found. List of available collections: Account, Value

I imagine this is happening because I have a profile controller and service but no DB collection, I’m just not sure how to fix it.

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Hello @Jacob_Carpenter :wave:,

I’m having trouble understanding why you have a problem with forest. :thinking: Could you share a repo with the project that’s causing the problem (or, if it contains sensitive data, a project with the minimum amount of code that reproduces the problem)? :pray: It would help me a lot.

Kind regards,

Florian