Building on Windows 10+
Yeah, I did all the usual stuff. Lock files, updates, various ways of imports ({}, require, *, full path, etc.) Not sure why, but when I break stuff, I break it good. Always tier 2 or 3 support LMAO. I do believe the issue resides in CLI, or... in conjunction with backbone-undo. Maybe path related, or symlinks, or......
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GrapesJS version [X] I confirm to use the latest version of GrapesJS What browser are you using? Chrome v122 Reproducible demo link N/A Describe the bug How to reproduce the bug?Checkout git onto a Windows 10+ machineBuild using provided procedure. What is the expected behavior? It should build the same as in a *inx system. What is the current behavior? The build fails with errors referencing Backbone: Environment: This 'may' be related to GrapesJS CLI, I am not sure, as changes to the webpack.config.js, tsconfig.json seem to have no effect. I have also tried building it directly, and it seem...
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Yeah, I did all the usual stuff. Lock files, updates, various ways of imports ({}, require, *, full path, etc.) Not sure why, but when I break stuff, I break it good. Always tier 2 or 3 support LMAO. I do believe the issue resides in CLI, or... in conjunction with backbone-undo. Maybe path related,...
Good points. I have not tried the other versions of Node. I will give that a shot.
Yeah build/serve are managed by the CLI (let's move the issue there) but I'm not sure what might be the problem (no Windows to test ๐ฅฒ)
The build failure you're experiencing on Windows 10+ with GrapesJS, characterized by warnings like export 'default' (imported as 'Backbone') was not found in 'backbone' (module has no exports), indicates a common module resolution issue. This typically occurs when a bundler (like Webpack, which Gra...
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