Error `Uncaught TypeError: util.inherits is not a function`

I want to use console.log in my script, so I added node: { console: true } to my configuration. Now when I try to load the script, it reports Uncaught TypeError: util.inherits is not a function. The error is occuring in the Webpack version of assert.js at the line:

util.inherits(assert.AssertionError, Error);

I nosed around a bit, and it seems that that file is being parsed twice (if I put a log statement at the top of the file, it is written to the console twice). The first time, the util object is correct and has an inherits property that is a function. The second time, util is still an object but it has no properties.

Does anyone have an idea what might be going on here? If not, I will try to put together a simple reproducible use case.

[langri-sha]

This is seriously annoying :hurtrealbad:. I did this in the end, because the node-util probably won’t ever get updated again:

npm i browser-assert

Then in your config, monkeypatch node-libs-browser:

const nodeLibsBrowser = require('node-libs-browser')
nodeLibsBrowser.assert = require.resolve('browser-assert')
nodeLibsBrowser.util = require.resolve('util')

[markpradhan]

module.exports = {
  resolve: {
    mainFields: ['browser', 'module', 'main']
  }
};

Adding this to the webpack config solved it for me.