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Help with writing Inngest http action - dynamic Node require

Hi there,
A user of our community asked about a Convex adapter for Inngest and when building it, it failed with the following error:

✘ [ERROR] Could not resolve "node:async_hooks"

    node_modules/.pnpm/inngest@3.39.2_typescript@5.8.3/node_modules/inngest/components/execution/als.js:61:98:
      61 │ ...st { AsyncLocalStorage } = await Promise.resolve().then(() => __importStar(require("node:async_hooks")));
         ╵                                                                                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  The package "node:async_hooks" wasn't found on the file system but is built into node. Are you
  trying to bundle for node? You can use "platform: 'node'" to do that, which will remove this
  error.
✖
It looks like you are using Node APIs from a file without the "use node" directive.
Split out actions using Node.js APIs like this into a new file only containing actions that uses "use node" so these actions will run in a Node.js environment.
For more information see https://docs.convex.dev/functions/runtimes#nodejs-runtime

✘ [ERROR] Could not resolve "node:async_hooks"

    node_modules/.pnpm/inngest@3.39.2_typescript@5.8.3/node_modules/inngest/components/execution/als.js:61:98:
      61 │ ...st { AsyncLocalStorage } = await Promise.resolve().then(() => __importStar(require("node:async_hooks")));
         ╵                                                                                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  The package "node:async_hooks" wasn't found on the file system but is built into node. Are you
  trying to bundle for node? You can use "platform: 'node'" to do that, which will remove this
  error.
✖
It looks like you are using Node APIs from a file without the "use node" directive.
Split out actions using Node.js APIs like this into a new file only containing actions that uses "use node" so these actions will run in a Node.js environment.
For more information see https://docs.convex.dev/functions/runtimes#nodejs-runtime

I attempted to:
* Modify the Inngest source to add

"use node"

"use node"

and it didn't work
* Add

"use node"

"use node"

in my

convex/inngest.js

convex/inngest.js

http action file
* Add

"node": { "externalPackages": ["inngest"] }

"node": { "externalPackages": ["inngest"] }

to my

convex.json

convex.json

file

None of the above worked, but I also saw something about Convex not supporting dynamic requires or imports at all. Is there a way to work around this or perhaps detect it in the Inngest package source code so it gracefully doesn't support this functionality?

Sources:
* Inngest source code for this import - It uses import in the source, but when transpiled for npm, it uses a

require

require

as seen in the error above.

Thanks!

GitHub

inngest-js/packages/inngest/src/components/execution/als.ts at bf8a...

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Help with writing Inngest http action - dynamic Node require

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