ethers v5 - Dependency @ledgerhq/hw-transport-node-hid is crashing Netlify build

For getting ledger work in Browser are those 2 dependencies needed:

 "@ledgerhq/hw-app-eth": "^5.14.0",
 "@ledgerhq/hw-transport-u2f": "^5.13.1", 

Ethers in version v5 is also using @ledgerhq/hw-transport-node-hid which does require native dependency libusb. This dependency is not available in Netlify environment:

Error:

prebuild-install WARN install libusb-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Browser only requires @ledgerhq/hw-transport-u2f, so @ledgerhq/hw-transport-node-hid should not be needed. Ideal might be to split hardware wallets package to 3:

1. with core functionality
2. with browser provider using 1.
3. with nodejs provider using 1.

This is just idea of possible solution, there are probably also other options. But removing this dependency would def help cause seems build of v5 (with HW wallets package) might crash in many environments configured for web builds.

[ricmoo]

See: https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#optionaldependencies

I don’t use yarn. I try to stick with the default and minimal tool chain, so I don’t force other to use things they don’t want to. 😃

[ricmoo]

@jurosh Can you see if the latest version still causes issues for you?

The ESM build is now browser-friendly, so hopefully won’t pull this package in on you. But I’m not sure exactly how netify works…