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fs.readFileSync - Cannot statically evaluate fs argument

See original GitHub issue

🐛 bug report

🎛 Configuration (.babelrc, package.json, cli command)

{
  "your": { "config": "here" }
}

🤔 Expected Behavior

😯 Current Behavior

💁 Possible Solution

🔦 Context

💻 Code Sample

https://github.com/mytee306/marked-intro

🌍 Your Environment

Software	Version(s)
Parcel	latest
Node	latest
npm/Yarn	latest
Operating System	linux mint

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 5 years ago
Reactions:4
Comments:21 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

29reactions

codeshifucommented, Jan 4, 2020

just tell parcel you’re running in a node environment with the target flag

e.g. parcel app.js --target node

1reaction

bhagyascommented, Mar 3, 2020

@codeshifu That is all it takes!

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