Dependency Load Error ENOENT: no such file or directory...

[wighawag]

I have a non trivial project that I am porting to snowpack 3
I can do snowpack build without issue

But when I do snowpack dev I get several Dependency Load Error ENOENT: no such file or directory...

it shows both in the console and as overlay in the app

Dependency Load Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\dev\test\web\node_modules\.cache\snowpack\development\@curi\svelte.js'
[snowpack] Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\dev\test\web\node_modules\.cache\snowpack\development\@curi\svelte.js'
[snowpack] [500] /_snowpack/pkg/@curi/svelte.js

or

[snowpack] Dependency Load Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\dev\test\web\node_modules\.cache\snowpack\development\common\index-ce401dc5.js'
[snowpack] Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\dev\test\web\node_modules\.cache\snowpack\development\common\index-ce401dc5.js'
[snowpack] [500] /_snowpack/pkg/common/index-ce401dc5.js

This looks like a bug in snowpack but have no idea where to start digging deeper

Interestingly it seems similar to the issue about "no such file..." listed in common errors here : https://www.snowpack.dev/reference/common-error-details

Could it be that the bug was not fully fixed in snowpack 2.6 or maybe reintroduced in 3.x ?

By the way, I got another snowpack project which also use @curi/svelte without problem

[Update]:
I started to look deeper in snowpack and the issue arise from a failure here : https://github.com/snowpackjs/snowpack/blob/76dca31aa0518d5e672e5f81ef272726db420202/snowpack/src/commands/dev.ts#L472

I noticed that the development/common folder is used by snowpack to put in different libs.
I also noticed that in some project some libs are put in development/common and in some other the libs are just put in development/<libname>/js

By manually copying the files that are missing in .cache/snowpack/development I can make the error goes but each I see more files missing.

So I guess the dependency buidler that is supposed to build up those files is not working. Any clue where that fails or even why ?

[wighawag]

I do not get the error anymore. It might be related to #2463

It would be great if snowpack could output a better error (or fails earlier) if the issue is related to the link above.

[melissamcewen]

Hi @wighawag looks like this might be a bug or we should indeed improve on the error handling here. I'm going to pass this on to the project lead. Thanks for reporting!

[Rennzie]

Hi, I'm getting a similar issue to this but I couldn't solve it with #2463 as mentioned above. I'm getting a few errors that all read something to the effect: Dependency Load Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'appdir/node_modules/.cache/snowpack/development/prop-types.js'

It seems to be a blocker from moving forward with snowpack. Any advice or direction would be much appreciated?

[FredKSchott]

Hey yall, I know that there are both speed improvements and windows fixes in #2707. I just tried out prop-types, react-intl, and leaflet and confirmed that they're all working on that branch.

I'm just getting tests passing, and then will post a v3.1.0-pre.1 release in that PR. If you can find the time, I'd love your help confirming that the new architecture fixes this for you.

[artemis-prime]

Seeing it in 3.8.8 grr

[unnanego]

Same here. Can't import BabylonJS GLTF loader with the same error in 3.8.8

[nthorn-adam]

I unfortunately will have to leave Snowpack behind because of this class of issue.

It sounds concerning to me that individual packages required individual attention from Snowpack's maintainers. Can you say if Babel or other competing bundlers have to address these same package-level concerns or if it is due to Snowpack's architecture in some way?

[gengns]

Not Working. Can't use Apollo, Vaadin Web Components, etc; if Snowpack > 3.8.6

[tobias-edwards]

Reverting to earlier versions managed to solve this issue and show me an issue with "worker_threads" where I've hit a brick wall. Gonna give up for now and just use webpack lol

[mhmmd-ysf]

Got one too, with a different file

• OS: Windows
• version: 3.8.8
• error message: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\Users\<location-to-project>\.git\objects\maintenance.lock'

I don't know if it has something to do with my git, but it works fine in my mac machine.

[AminShahidi98]

I deleted the .chache folder in node_modules and it fixed. Snowpack creates .cache folder every time i start it.

[walidEssaied]

Just he re-prepare dependencies and cache it again, i got same error

[moab2486]

perfect i was able to resolve it by deleting the .cache file in the node module created by snowpack