No such built-in module commming from import-in-the-middle when using ts-node

[AnthonyDugarte]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have checked for existing issues https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-javascript/issues
• I have reviewed the documentation https://docs.sentry.io/
• I am using the latest SDK release https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-javascript/releases

How do you use Sentry?

Sentry Saas (sentry.io)

Which SDK are you using?

@sentry/node

SDK Version

8.9.1

Framework Version

Node v20.12.1

Link to Sentry event

No response

SDK Setup

Sentry.init({
    dsn,
    environment,
    enabled,
    tracesSampleRate,
});

Steps to Reproduce

Migrated from v7 to v8.

Added the @sentry/node/preload and it failed to run.

#12357 is similar but it's using tsx, the loaders order is wrong according to the thread; here I'm explicitly specifing the loaders order and I'm using ts-node with EMS. Using tsx is not negotiable given that they don't support the experimental legacy decorators.

By following #12422, I was able to make it work using: tsc --build && node --import @sentry/node/preload -r dotenv/config dist/index.js; but that's by not using ts-node, which is the issue I'm bringing up.

Expected Result

No error

Actual Result

SENTRY_DEBUG=1 node --import @sentry/node/preload --import ../ts-node.register.mjs -r dotenv/config src/index.ts
Sentry Logger [debug]: @opentelemetry/api: Registered a global for diag v1.9.0.
Sentry Logger [log]: [Sentry] Preloaded Http instrumentation
Sentry Logger [log]: [Sentry] Preloaded Express instrumentation
Sentry Logger [log]: [Sentry] Preloaded Connect instrumentation
Sentry Logger [log]: [Sentry] Preloaded Fastify instrumentation
Sentry Logger [log]: [Sentry] Preloaded Hapi instrumentation
Sentry Logger [log]: [Sentry] Preloaded Koa instrumentation
Sentry Logger [log]: [Sentry] Preloaded Nest instrumentation
Sentry Logger [log]: [Sentry] Preloaded Mongo instrumentation
Sentry Logger [log]: [Sentry] Preloaded Mongoose instrumentation
Sentry Logger [log]: [Sentry] Preloaded Mysql instrumentation
Sentry Logger [log]: [Sentry] Preloaded Mysql2 instrumentation
Sentry Logger [log]: [Sentry] Preloaded Postgres instrumentation
Sentry Logger [log]: [Sentry] Preloaded Hapi instrumentation
Sentry Logger [log]: [Sentry] Preloaded Graphql instrumentation
Sentry Logger [log]: [Sentry] Preloaded Redis instrumentation
Error [ERR_UNKNOWN_BUILTIN_MODULE]: No such built-in module: node:http?iitm=true
    at ModuleLoader.builtinStrategy (node:internal/modules/esm/translators:465:11)
    at callTranslator (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:279:14)
    at ModuleLoader.moduleProvider (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:285:30) {
  code: 'ERR_UNKNOWN_BUILTIN_MODULE'
}

../ts-node.register.mjs content is:

import { register } from "node:module";
import { pathToFileURL } from "node:url";

process.on('uncaughtException', function (err) {
  console.error(err);
  process.exit(1);
});

register("ts-node/esm", pathToFileURL("./"));

[Lms24]

Hi, thanks for reporting, we'll take a look!

[timfish]

It's a shame the stack trace from Node is so short and unhelpful!

I can reproduce this but I can also work around it by reversing the order of the --import:

node --import ./ts-node.register.mjs --import @sentry/node/preload -r dotenv/config src/index.ts

This changes the order that the various ESM loader hooks are registered and therefore the order that they're called to resolve and load source code.

[AnthonyDugarte]

By switching the order I get a different error:

[Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/path-to-app/src/controllers/users.controller.js'] {
  errno: -2,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'open',
  path: '/path-to-app/src/controllers/users.controller.js'
}

src/index.ts has an import to the controllers folder index file that looks like:

import { UserController, ...otherControllers } from './controllers/index.js';

and src/controllers/index.ts content is simply:

export * from './users.controller.js';
// ... other controllers

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It's worth noticing that by switching the src/controllers/index.ts content to use .ts import termination and enabling "allowImportingTsExtensions": true in the tsconfig.json, the error goes the a different .js file termination.

export * from './users.controller.ts';
// ... other controllers

I have a bunch of imports so didn't update them all to try if the app runs correctly, will try it and share an update.

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Edit 1

It seems to be an issue with index.ts files that is filled only with export * expressions.

I updated all the: export * from './path-to-file.js' to be export * from './path-to-file.ts' in index.ts file, and the app booted up.

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Edit 2

By updating the exports to be explicit, export { A, B, C } from './file.js' and reverting back to the .js export syntax the app ran correctly, it is an issue with the export * from './file.js' expression.