3rd party lib electron-log does not work in worker

[clemp6r]

Describe the bug

When trying to call electron-log from a Node worker, I get this error:

TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'exports')
    at cjsPreparseModuleExports (node:internal/modules/esm/translators:295:81)
    at createCJSModuleWrap (node:internal/modules/esm/translators:187:35)
    at ModuleLoader.<anonymous> (node:internal/modules/esm/translators:247:10)
    at #translate (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:534:12)
    at ModuleLoader.loadAndTranslate (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:581:27)

Versions:

• electron-log: 5.4.3

Additional context:

• running in dev mode
• worker created using ?nodeWorker import from electron-vite.

The electron-log developer says he can't do much and should be a bundling issue (see issue on electron-log project), that's why I'm creating an issue here.

Electron-Vite Version

3.1.0

Electron Version

36.5.0

Vite Version

6.3.5

Validations

• Follow the Code of Conduct.
• Read the Contributing Guidelines.
• Read the docs.
• Check that there isn't already an issue that reports the same bug to avoid creating a duplicate.

[alex8088]

electron-log does not export esm modules, but your project seems to have esm enabled. see https://electron-vite.org/guide/dev#enabling-esm

[clemp6r]

Indeed we use ESM, and I think a lot of old libs don't export ESM modules but in general this is not an issue.
What do you recommend? I'm not sure how the docs can help fixing this.

[alex8088]

try

export default defineConfig({
  main: {
    plugins: [externalizeDepsPlugin({ exclude: ['electron-log'] })],
   // ...
  },
  // ...
})

or electron-winston

[clemp6r]

Adding this config has no effect, it is even worse because now lodash imports I have in workers make the app crash at startup.

Error [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find module '(...)\node_modules\lodash\mean' imported from (...)\app\out\main\index.js
Did you mean to import "lodash/mean.js"?

Adding a .js suffix fixes this, however there is no improvement with electron-log.

or electron-winston

Unfortunately I get the exact same issue with your library.