--dest doesn't work properly

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug? Bug

What is the current behaviour? When I try to build for other destination using --dest, it throws an unrelated error which is only resolved I use --no-prerender along with it.

If the current behaviour is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce.

preact build --dest ../public/build

What is the expected behaviour? The expected behaviour is that it should build, as it build with just preact build

If this is a feature request, what is motivation or use case for changing the behaviour?

Please mention other relevant information.

A sneakpeak of the Error

Error: Cannot find module 'preact'
Require stack:
- /Users/debdut/Code/Projects/blogletter/public/build/ssr-build/ssr-bundle.js
- /Users/debdut/Code/Projects/blogletter/blogletter.news/node_modules/preact-cli/lib/lib/webpack/prerender.js
- /Users/debdut/Code/Projects/blogletter/blogletter.news/node_modules/preact-cli/lib/lib/webpack/render-html-plugin.js
- /Users/debdut/Code/Projects/blogletter/blogletter.news/node_modules/preact-cli/lib/lib/webpack/webpack-client-config.js
- /Users/debdut/Code/Projects/blogletter/blogletter.news/node_modules/preact-cli/lib/lib/webpack/run-webpack.js
- /Users/debdut/Code/Projects/blogletter/blogletter.news/node_modules/preact-cli/lib/commands/build.js
- /Users/debdut/Code/Projects/blogletter/blogletter.news/node_modules/preact-cli/lib/commands/index.js
- /Users/debdut/Code/Projects/blogletter/blogletter.news/node_modules/preact-cli/lib/index.js
method: HteQ
at: /Users/debdut/Code/Projects/blogletter/blogletter.news/src/assets/images/browser-dark.png:1:41

This could be caused by using DOM or Web APIs.
Pre-render runs in node and has no access to globals available in browsers.

Consider wrapping code producing error in: 'if (typeof window !== "undefined") { ... }'

Alternatively use 'preact build --no-prerender' to disable prerendering.

This error seems irrelevant since I’m not using any Browser API such as window or document that will come in the way of prerender. Plus it builds perfectly if I don’t set the --dest

Please paste the results of preact info here.

Environment Info:
  System:
    OS: macOS 11.0
    CPU: (12) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-8950HK CPU @ 2.90GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: 12.14.1 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.14.1/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.5 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
    npm: 6.14.8 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.14.1/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 83.0.4103.97
    Safari: 14.0.1
  npmPackages:
    preact: ^10.3.2 => 10.5.5 
    preact-cli: ^3.0.0 => 3.0.3 
    preact-render-to-string: ^5.1.4 => 5.1.10 
    preact-router: ^3.2.1 => 3.2.1 
  npmGlobalPackages:
    preact-cli: 3.0.3

[rschristian]

Hm, might not be as simple as I assumed.

Seems to be that the issue is here, we ultimately can not require the ssr-bundle.js when that module’s own require statements cannot be resolved (as there is no preact package that can be resolved from ../public/build). I’ll play with this some more, but leaving a comment in case I need to leave this for a while.

[rschristian]

Going to close this out as a “won’t fix” as this is standard behavior in Node.