discord.js - Imagine an app•4w ago

@discordjs/rest: TypeError: Super expression must either be null or a function

I use @discordjs/rest (2.6.0) to post to my server once a day. Yesterday, I upgraded my project's dependencies. @vladfrangu/async_event_emitter was updated from 2.4.6 to 2.4.7. Today, posts fail with TypeError: Super expression must either be null or a function in @vladfrangu/async_event_emitter/node_modules/node-inspect-extracted/dist/inspect.js:2:44522 Anyone else seeing this? Guess I should pin async_event_emitter to 2.4.6?

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d.js toolkit•4w ago

MatthewOP•4w ago

node is 22.16.0, and it's failing both locally and in production (Cloudflare Workers) full code is

    const { REST } = await import("@discordjs/rest")

    const rest = new REST({ version: "10" }).setToken(env.DISCORD_TOKEN)

        const response = await rest.post(`/channels/${DISCORD_CHANNELID}/threads`, {
            body: {
                name: "foo",
                message: { content: "bar" },
                auto_archive_duration: 10080, // one week
            },
        })

    const { REST } = await import("@discordjs/rest")

    const rest = new REST({ version: "10" }).setToken(env.DISCORD_TOKEN)

        const response = await rest.post(`/channels/${DISCORD_CHANNELID}/threads`, {
            body: {
                name: "foo",
                message: { content: "bar" },
                auto_archive_duration: 10080, // one week
            },
        })

Mafia•4w ago

what type is the DISCORD_CHANNELID?

MatthewOP•4w ago

string.

Mafia•4w ago

should clarify what is the channel type

MatthewOP•4w ago

overriding the async emitter package to 2.4.6 fixed the issue for me Duh sorry. It's a forum channel On phone rn, can investigate further on laptop if that's useful

vladdy•4w ago

yes please

Mafia•4w ago

I was unable to replicate here are my dependencies

dependencies:
@discordjs/rest 2.6.0
├── @discordjs/collection 2.1.1
├── @discordjs/util 1.1.1
├── @sapphire/async-queue 1.5.5
├── @sapphire/snowflake 3.5.5
├── @vladfrangu/async_event_emitter 2.4.7
├── discord-api-types 0.38.31
├── magic-bytes.js 1.12.1
├── tslib 2.8.1
└── undici 6.21.3
discord-api-types 0.38.31

dependencies:
@discordjs/rest 2.6.0
├── @discordjs/collection 2.1.1
├── @discordjs/util 1.1.1
├── @sapphire/async-queue 1.5.5
├── @sapphire/snowflake 3.5.5
├── @vladfrangu/async_event_emitter 2.4.7
├── discord-api-types 0.38.31
├── magic-bytes.js 1.12.1
├── tslib 2.8.1
└── undici 6.21.3
discord-api-types 0.38.31

MatthewOP•4w ago

I can't replicate in a fresh repo, will try adding stuff from real codebase until something breaks

vladdy•4w ago

yes pls maybe its even your wrangler config or at least the stacktrace you're getting

MatthewOP•4w ago

stacktrace.txt

MatthewOP•4w ago

and here is my package.json in case useful

{
    "name": "@catfishing/tasks",
    "version": "0.0.0",
    "private": true,
    "scripts": {
        "dev": "wrangler dev --test-scheduled --ip 0.0.0.0 --port 8787 --persist-to=../.persist",
        "cf-typegen": "wrangler types"
    },
    "devDependencies": {
        "@types/node": "^24.9.1",
        "typescript": "^5.9.3",
        "wrangler": "^4.45.0"
    },
    "packageManager": "pnpm@10.11.1+sha512.e519b9f7639869dc8d5c3c5dfef73b3f091094b0a006d7317353c72b124e80e1afd429732e28705ad6bfa1ee879c1fce46c128ccebd3192101f43dd67c667912",
    "dependencies": {
        "@atproto/api": "^0.15.27",
        "@catfishing/common": "workspace:*",
        "@discordjs/rest": "^2.6.0",
        "@sentry/cloudflare": "^9.46.0",
        "cloudflare": "^5.2.0",
        "masto": "^7.3.0",
        "valibot": "^1.1.0"
    }
}

{
    "name": "@catfishing/tasks",
    "version": "0.0.0",
    "private": true,
    "scripts": {
        "dev": "wrangler dev --test-scheduled --ip 0.0.0.0 --port 8787 --persist-to=../.persist",
        "cf-typegen": "wrangler types"
    },
    "devDependencies": {
        "@types/node": "^24.9.1",
        "typescript": "^5.9.3",
        "wrangler": "^4.45.0"
    },
    "packageManager": "pnpm@10.11.1+sha512.e519b9f7639869dc8d5c3c5dfef73b3f091094b0a006d7317353c72b124e80e1afd429732e28705ad6bfa1ee879c1fce46c128ccebd3192101f43dd67c667912",
    "dependencies": {
        "@atproto/api": "^0.15.27",
        "@catfishing/common": "workspace:*",
        "@discordjs/rest": "^2.6.0",
        "@sentry/cloudflare": "^9.46.0",
        "cloudflare": "^5.2.0",
        "masto": "^7.3.0",
        "valibot": "^1.1.0"
    }
}

vladdy•4w ago

well that stracktrace is not useful but it sounds like you repro'd?

MatthewOP•4w ago

#:schema node_modules/wrangler/config-schema.json
name = "catfishing-tasks"
main = "src/index.ts"
compatibility_date = "2024-12-30"
compatibility_flags = ["nodejs_compat"]

workers_dev = false
preview_urls = false
send_metrics = false

routes = [{ pattern = "foo", custom_domain = true }]

[observability]
enabled = true

[triggers]
crons = [ "*/5 * * * *", "0 0 * * *", "0 10 * * *" ]

[[d1_databases]]
binding = "DB" # Should match preview_database_id
database_name = "catfishing-us"
database_id = "foo"
preview_database_id = "DB" # Required for Pages local development

[[r2_buckets]]
binding = "R2_STATIC"
bucket_name = "foo"

[vars]
PUBLIC_SENTRY_DSN = "foo"

#:schema node_modules/wrangler/config-schema.json
name = "catfishing-tasks"
main = "src/index.ts"
compatibility_date = "2024-12-30"
compatibility_flags = ["nodejs_compat"]

workers_dev = false
preview_urls = false
send_metrics = false

routes = [{ pattern = "foo", custom_domain = true }]

[observability]
enabled = true

[triggers]
crons = [ "*/5 * * * *", "0 0 * * *", "0 10 * * *" ]

[[d1_databases]]
binding = "DB" # Should match preview_database_id
database_name = "catfishing-us"
database_id = "foo"
preview_database_id = "DB" # Required for Pages local development

[[r2_buckets]]
binding = "R2_STATIC"
bucket_name = "foo"

[vars]
PUBLIC_SENTRY_DSN = "foo"

vladdy•4w ago

it shouldn't tho the inspect module is bundled INTO aee not a node_modules dep

MatthewOP•4w ago

i haven't time to create a minimal repository that reproduces the erro sorry, but in my actual project I hit the error every time with async_emitter 2.4.7. both in cloudlfare, and localhost

vladdy•4w ago

does it trigger solely when you import discordjs/rest can you test that pls bc i need to know if its that or when an error event is emitted i do wonder if wrangler is messing smth up I also dont understand why your stack trace mentions an internal node_modules when one shouldn't exist

MatthewOP•4w ago

  const { REST } = await import("@discordjs/rest")

  const rest = new REST({ version: "10" }).setToken(env.DISCORD_TOKEN) // FAILS ON THIS LINE

  const discordPostId = await attempt(() => post(rest, day))
  console.log(`Submitted post for day ${day}: ${discordPostId}`)

  const { REST } = await import("@discordjs/rest")

  const rest = new REST({ version: "10" }).setToken(env.DISCORD_TOKEN) // FAILS ON THIS LINE

  const discordPostId = await attempt(() => post(rest, day))
  console.log(`Submitted post for day ${day}: ${discordPostId}`)

vladdy•4w ago

interesting humor me

  const { REST } = await import("@discordjs/rest")

  const rest = new REST({ version: "10" })

  const { REST } = await import("@discordjs/rest")

  const rest = new REST({ version: "10" })

does this throw

MatthewOP•4w ago

having said that, maybe js is smart enough to skip the import if REST is unused? (not an expert here)

vladdy•4w ago

i wonder if this is just wrangler messing smth up hardcore

MatthewOP•4w ago

yes this throws

vladdy•4w ago

fascinating

MatthewOP•4w ago

other random things, probably not useful: - this is one project in a monorepo that i'm managing with pnpm workspaces. no other projects use discordjs - to date, 100% of the time something weird has happened, it has been @sentry/cloudflare's fault

vladdy•4w ago

can you override aee with version 2.4.8-1.0 and lmk if it still errors?

MatthewOP•4w ago

- i added "overrides": { "aee": "2.4.8-1.0" } - deleted node_modules - ran pnpm install -r - still errors

vladdy•4w ago

well the module name is not aee its @vladfrangu/async_event_emitter

MatthewOP•4w ago

😂 one second still errors

vladdy•4w ago

and if you nuke the sentry thing also can you ll /home/foo/projects/foo/foo/node_modules/.pnpm/@vladfrangu+async_event_emitter@2.4.7 ofc adjusted for correct version

MatthewOP•4w ago

no such directory. but ll node_modules/.pnpm/@vladfrangu+async_event_emitter@2.4.8-1.0/ reports node_modules

vladdy•4w ago

what the everloving fuck

MatthewOP•4w ago

lmk if you want me to undo the override and retry 2.4.7

vladdy•4w ago

dare i ask why the everloving fuck can you show me the package.json with 2.4.7 pls

MatthewOP•4w ago

just checking I'm doing the right thing - I still have your 2.4.8.-1.0 override in place will undo it now have removed the override, and ll node_modules/.pnpm/@vladfrangu+async_event_emitter@2.4.7 now reports node_modules package.json for project

{
    "name": "@catfishing/tasks",
    "version": "0.0.0",
    "private": true,
    "scripts": {
        "dev": "wrangler dev --test-scheduled --ip 0.0.0.0 --port 8787 --persist-to=../.persist",
        "cf-typegen": "wrangler types"
    },
    "devDependencies": {
        "@types/node": "^24.9.1",
        "typescript": "^5.9.3",
        "wrangler": "^4.45.0"
    },
    "packageManager": "pnpm@10.11.1+sha512.e519b9f7639869dc8d5c3c5dfef73b3f091094b0a006d7317353c72b124e80e1afd429732e28705ad6bfa1ee879c1fce46c128ccebd3192101f43dd67c667912",
    "dependencies": {
        "@atproto/api": "^0.15.27",
        "@catfishing/common": "workspace:*",
        "@discordjs/rest": "^2.6.0",
        "@sentry/cloudflare": "^9.46.0",
        "cloudflare": "^5.2.0",
        "masto": "^7.3.0",
        "valibot": "^1.1.0"
    }
}

{
    "name": "@catfishing/tasks",
    "version": "0.0.0",
    "private": true,
    "scripts": {
        "dev": "wrangler dev --test-scheduled --ip 0.0.0.0 --port 8787 --persist-to=../.persist",
        "cf-typegen": "wrangler types"
    },
    "devDependencies": {
        "@types/node": "^24.9.1",
        "typescript": "^5.9.3",
        "wrangler": "^4.45.0"
    },
    "packageManager": "pnpm@10.11.1+sha512.e519b9f7639869dc8d5c3c5dfef73b3f091094b0a006d7317353c72b124e80e1afd429732e28705ad6bfa1ee879c1fce46c128ccebd3192101f43dd67c667912",
    "dependencies": {
        "@atproto/api": "^0.15.27",
        "@catfishing/common": "workspace:*",
        "@discordjs/rest": "^2.6.0",
        "@sentry/cloudflare": "^9.46.0",
        "cloudflare": "^5.2.0",
        "masto": "^7.3.0",
        "valibot": "^1.1.0"
    }
}

package.json for root of monorepo

{
    "pnpm": {
        "onlyBuiltDependencies": [
            "@sentry/cli",
            "core-js",
            "esbuild",
            "sharp",
            "svelte-preprocess",
            "workerd"
        ]
    },
    "packageManager": "pnpm@10.11.1+sha512.e519b9f7639869dc8d5c3c5dfef73b3f091094b0a006d7317353c72b124e80e1afd429732e28705ad6bfa1ee879c1fce46c128ccebd3192101f43dd67c667912",
    "devDependencies": {
        "concurrently": "^9.2.1",
        "prettier": "^3.6.2",
        "prettier-plugin-organize-imports": "^4.3.0",
        "prettier-plugin-svelte": "^3.4.0",
        "prettier-plugin-tailwindcss": "^0.6.14"
    },
    "scripts": {
        "format": "prettier --write .",
        "format:check": "prettier --check ."
    }
}

{
    "pnpm": {
        "onlyBuiltDependencies": [
            "@sentry/cli",
            "core-js",
            "esbuild",
            "sharp",
            "svelte-preprocess",
            "workerd"
        ]
    },
    "packageManager": "pnpm@10.11.1+sha512.e519b9f7639869dc8d5c3c5dfef73b3f091094b0a006d7317353c72b124e80e1afd429732e28705ad6bfa1ee879c1fce46c128ccebd3192101f43dd67c667912",
    "devDependencies": {
        "concurrently": "^9.2.1",
        "prettier": "^3.6.2",
        "prettier-plugin-organize-imports": "^4.3.0",
        "prettier-plugin-svelte": "^3.4.0",
        "prettier-plugin-tailwindcss": "^0.6.14"
    },
    "scripts": {
        "format": "prettier --write .",
        "format:check": "prettier --check ."
    }
}

vladdy•4w ago

and what package.json

MatthewOP•4w ago

what do you mean? have pasted the project and monorepo package.json's

vladdy•4w ago

the package.json in the node_modules folder /home/foo/projects/foo/foo/node_modules/.pnpm/@vladfrangu+async_event_emitter@2.4.7/package.json or w/e

MatthewOP•4w ago

package.json

MatthewOP•4w ago

full path is /node_modules/.pnpm/@vladfrangu+async_event_emitter@2.4.7/node_modules/@vladfrangu/async_event_emitter/package.json

vladdy•4w ago

oh and in the nested node_modules is there more than 1 thing?

MatthewOP•4w ago

ie deeper than the path you gave me

matthew@ThinkPad:~/projects/foo/catfishing/node_modules/.pnpm/@vladfrangu+async_event_emitter@2.4.7
$ tree
.
└── node_modules
    └── @vladfrangu
        └── async_event_emitter
            ├── CHANGELOG.md
            ├── dist
            │   ├── index.cjs
            │   ├── index.cjs.map
            │   ├── index.d.mts
            │   ├── index.d.ts
            │   ├── index.global.js
            │   ├── index.global.js.map
            │   ├── index.mjs
            │   └── index.mjs.map
            ├── LICENSE.md
            ├── package.json
            ├── README.md
            └── THIRD_PARTY_LICENSE.md

5 directories, 13 files

matthew@ThinkPad:~/projects/foo/catfishing/node_modules/.pnpm/@vladfrangu+async_event_emitter@2.4.7
$ tree
.
└── node_modules
    └── @vladfrangu
        └── async_event_emitter
            ├── CHANGELOG.md
            ├── dist
            │   ├── index.cjs
            │   ├── index.cjs.map
            │   ├── index.d.mts
            │   ├── index.d.ts
            │   ├── index.global.js
            │   ├── index.global.js.map
            │   ├── index.mjs
            │   └── index.mjs.map
            ├── LICENSE.md
            ├── package.json
            ├── README.md
            └── THIRD_PARTY_LICENSE.md

5 directories, 13 files

vladdy•4w ago

ok so the code is fine atp i feel like its wrangler doing something nasty or sentry can you check without sentry

MatthewOP•4w ago

i can look at removing sentry as you said, but it's quite a bit of editing as there's loads of sentry stuff scattered about for info my fetch and scheduled handlers are wrapped in export default Sentry.withSentry()

vladdy•4w ago

what if you import rest without await import but just import

MatthewOP•4w ago

⎔ Starting local server...
✘ [ERROR] service core:user:catfishing-tasks: Uncaught TypeError: Super expression must either be null or a function

    at null.<anonymous> (index.js:130351:61) in i
    at null.<anonymous> (index.js:130710:18)
    at null.<anonymous> (index.js:130711:10) in 425
    at null.<anonymous> (index.js:131198:20) in r
    at null.<anonymous> (index.js:129019:26) in 33
    at null.<anonymous> (index.js:131198:20) in r
    at null.<anonymous> (index.js:131199:21)
    at null.<anonymous> (index.js:131200:7)
    at null.<anonymous> (index.js:128914:82)
    at null.<anonymous> (index.js:128915:6) in node_modules/node-inspect-extracted/dist/inspect.js



✘ [ERROR] The Workers runtime failed to start. There is likely additional logging output above.

⎔ Starting local server...
✘ [ERROR] service core:user:catfishing-tasks: Uncaught TypeError: Super expression must either be null or a function

    at null.<anonymous> (index.js:130351:61) in i
    at null.<anonymous> (index.js:130710:18)
    at null.<anonymous> (index.js:130711:10) in 425
    at null.<anonymous> (index.js:131198:20) in r
    at null.<anonymous> (index.js:129019:26) in 33
    at null.<anonymous> (index.js:131198:20) in r
    at null.<anonymous> (index.js:131199:21)
    at null.<anonymous> (index.js:131200:7)
    at null.<anonymous> (index.js:128914:82)
    at null.<anonymous> (index.js:128915:6) in node_modules/node-inspect-extracted/dist/inspect.js



✘ [ERROR] The Workers runtime failed to start. There is likely additional logging output above.

whole worker fails to start

vladdy•4w ago

what the fuck is wrangler doing @Jiralite can youuu test out a wrangler setup? same ver as them? maybe its the compat date??? or the node flag?? idfk

MatthewOP•4w ago

i have a fresh repo which hits the error lemme tidy it up and publish it, will be a minute

vladdy•4w ago

this does feel like an issue to be reported to cf tho I can fix it on my end to drop the inspect and go back to how it was but yknow

MatthewOP•4w ago

https://github.com/catfishing-game/discordjs-async-issue

vladdy•4w ago

it must be either compat date or compat flags

MatthewOP•4w ago

compat date

vladdy•4w ago

yeah infinitely appreciated that you actually helped us figure it out

MatthewOP•4w ago

haha thanks, no worries! fun saturday night

vladdy•4w ago

now the question is how do we tell cf to fix it :meguFace: annd will they even fix it

MatthewOP•4w ago

as you can tell, i know very little about pnpm and node_modules etc so sorry if it was a bit slower than it needed to be yes if i move it today's date, it goes away

vladdy•4w ago

BRUH

MatthewOP•4w ago

if you haven't got there already, 2025-05-04 is the last breaking date and 2025-05-05 is the first working date

MatthewOP•4w ago

https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/configuration/compatibility-flags/#enable-finalizationregistry-and-weakref

Cloudflare Docs

Compatibility flags

Opt into a specific features of the Workers runtime for your Workers project.

vladdy•4w ago

Wtf Did you just bisect the compat dates

MatthewOP•4w ago

correct. adding the flag but keeping my original compat_date fixes it

    "compatibility_date": "2024-12-30",
    "compatibility_flags": [
        "nodejs_compat", "enable_weak_ref"
    ],

    "compatibility_date": "2024-12-30",
    "compatibility_flags": [
        "nodejs_compat", "enable_weak_ref"
    ],

vladdy•4w ago

Maybe inspect does things with weak refs? @Matthew hewwo, can you try @vladfrangu/async_event_emitter@2.4.9-2.0 with your current config without the weak ref flag

MatthewOP•4w ago

fails. see: https://github.com/catfishing-game/discordjs-async-issue/tree/%40vladfrangu/async_event_emitter%402.4.9-2.0

vladdy•4w ago

still fails, seriously??

MatthewOP•4w ago

yup. this fails:

git clone -b @vladfrangu/async_event_emitter@2.4.9-2.0 git@github.com:catfishing-game/discordjs-async-issue.git && cd discordjs-async-issue && pnpm install && pnpm dev

Gaming

Programming

@discordjs/rest: TypeError: Super expression must either be null or a function

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