Remove the need for aliases in wrangler.toml

TODO.txt

@@ -46,16 +46,6 @@ minify = false
 
 # Use the new Workers + Assets to host the static frontend files
 experimental_assets = { directory = ".worker-next/assets", binding = "ASSETS" }
-
-# The aliases below should not be needed (we don't want users to have to define the aliases themselves)
-[alias]
-# critters is `require`d from `pages.runtime.prod.js` when running wrangler dev, so we need to stub it out
-"critters" = "./.next/standalone/node_modules/cf/templates/shims/empty.ts"
-# @opentelemetry/api is `require`d when running wrangler dev, so we need to stub it out
-# IMPORTANT: we shim @opentelemetry/api to the throwing shim so that it will throw right away, this is so that we throw inside the
-#            try block here: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/blob/9e8266a7/packages/next/src/server/lib/trace/tracer.ts#L27-L31
-#            causing the code to require the 'next/dist/compiled/@opentelemetry/api' module instead (which properly works)
-"@opentelemetry/api" = "./.next/standalone/node_modules/cf/templates/shims/throw.ts"
 ```
 
 - Build the builder

builder/src/build/build-worker/index.ts

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import { patchReadFile } from "./patches/to-investigate/patchReadFile";
 import { patchFindDir } from "./patches/to-investigate/patchFindDir";
 import { inlineNextRequire } from "./patches/to-investigate/inlineNextRequire";
 import { inlineEvalManifest } from "./patches/to-investigate/inlineEvalManifest";
+import { patchWranglerDeps } from "./patches/to-investigate/wranglerDeps";
 
 /**
  * Using the Next.js build output in the `.next` directory builds a workerd compatible output
@@ -33,6 +34,10 @@ export async function buildWorker(
 		)?.[1] ?? {};
 
 	console.log(`\x1b[35m⚙️ Bundling the worker file...\n\x1b[0m`);
+
+	patchWranglerDeps(nextjsAppPaths);
+	updateWebpackChunksFile(nextjsAppPaths);
+
 	await build({
 		entryPoints: [workerEntrypoint],
 		bundle: true,
@@ -51,13 +56,6 @@ export async function buildWorker(
 			//   which comes from https://github.com/vercel/edge-runtime/blob/6e96b55f/packages/primitives/src/primitives/load.js#L57-L63
 			// QUESTION: Why did I encountered this but mhart didn't?
 			"next/dist/compiled/edge-runtime": `${templateDir}/shims/empty.ts`,
-			// Note: we need to stub out `@opentelemetry/api` as that is problematic and doesn't get properly bundled...
-			critters: `${templateDir}/shims/empty.ts`,
-			// Note: we need to stub out `@opentelemetry/api` as it is problematic
-			// IMPORTANT: we shim @opentelemetry/api to the throwing shim so that it will throw right away, this is so that we throw inside the
-			//            try block here: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/blob/9e8266a7/packages/next/src/server/lib/trace/tracer.ts#L27-L31
-			//            causing the code to require the 'next/dist/compiled/@opentelemetry/api' module instead (which properly works)
-			"@opentelemetry/api": `${templateDir}/shims/throw.ts`,
 			// `@next/env` is a library Next.js uses for loading dotenv files, for obvious reasons we need to stub it here
 			// source: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/0ac10d79720/packages/next-env
 			"@next/env": `${templateDir}/shims/env.ts`,
@@ -98,8 +96,6 @@ export async function buildWorker(
 
 	await updateWorkerBundledCode(workerOutputFile, nextjsAppPaths);
 
-	updateWebpackChunksFile(nextjsAppPaths);
-
 	console.log(`\x1b[35m⚙️ Copying asset files...\n\x1b[0m`);
 	await cp(
 		`${nextjsAppPaths.dotNextDir}/static`,

builder/src/build/build-worker/patches/investigated/copyTemplates.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import path from "node:path";
-import { NextjsAppPaths } from "builder/src/nextjsPaths";
-import { cpSync, mkdirSync } from "node:fs";
+import { NextjsAppPaths } from "../../../../nextjsPaths";
+import { cpSync } from "node:fs";
 
 /**
  * Copy templates in the standalone folder.

builder/src/build/build-worker/patches/to-investigate/inlineEvalManifest.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { globSync } from "glob";
-import { NextjsAppPaths } from "builder/src/nextjsPaths";
+import { NextjsAppPaths } from "../../../../nextjsPaths";
 
 /**
  * `evalManifest` relies on readFileSync so we need to patch the function so that it instead returns the content of the manifest files

builder/src/build/build-worker/patches/to-investigate/inlineNextRequire.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { readFileSync, existsSync } from "node:fs";
-import { NextjsAppPaths } from "builder/src/nextjsPaths";
+import { NextjsAppPaths } from "../../../../nextjsPaths";
 
 /**
  * The following avoid various Next.js specific files `require`d at runtime since we can just read

builder/src/build/build-worker/patches/to-investigate/patchFindDir.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { NextjsAppPaths } from "builder/src/nextjsPaths";
+import { NextjsAppPaths } from "../../../../nextjsPaths";
 import { existsSync } from "node:fs";
 
 /**

builder/src/build/build-worker/patches/to-investigate/patchReadFile.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
 import { globSync } from "glob";
-import { NextjsAppPaths } from "builder/src/nextjsPaths";
+import { NextjsAppPaths } from "../../../../nextjsPaths";
 
 export function patchReadFile(
 	code: string,

builder/src/build/build-worker/patches/to-investigate/wranglerDeps.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+import path from "node:path";
+import fs, { writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { NextjsAppPaths } from "../../../../nextjsPaths";
+
+export function patchWranglerDeps(paths: NextjsAppPaths) {
+	console.log("# patchWranglerDeps");
+
+	console.log({ base: paths.standaloneAppDotNextDir });
+
+	// Patch .next/standalone/node_modules/next/dist/compiled/next-server/pages.runtime.prod.js
+	//
+	// Remove the need for an alias in wrangler.toml:
+	//
+	// [alias]
+	// # critters is `require`d from `pages.runtime.prod.js` when running wrangler dev, so we need to stub it out
+	// "critters" = "./.next/standalone/node_modules/cf/templates/shims/empty.ts"
+	const pagesRuntimeFile = path.join(
+		paths.standaloneAppDir,
+		"node_modules",
+		"next",
+		"dist",
+		"compiled",
+		"next-server",
+		"pages.runtime.prod.js"
+	);
+
+	const patchedPagesRuntime = fs
+		.readFileSync(pagesRuntimeFile, "utf-8")
+		.replace(`e.exports=require("critters")`, `e.exports={}`);
+
+	fs.writeFileSync(pagesRuntimeFile, patchedPagesRuntime);
+
+	// Patch .next/standalone/node_modules/next/dist/server/lib/trace/tracer.js
+	//
+	// Remove the need for an alias in wrangler.toml:
+	//
+	// [alias]
+	// # @opentelemetry/api is `require`d when running wrangler dev, so we need to stub it out
+	// # IMPORTANT: we shim @opentelemetry/api to the throwing shim so that it will throw right away, this is so that we throw inside the
+	// #            try block here: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/blob/9e8266a7/packages/next/src/server/lib/trace/tracer.ts#L27-L31
+	// #            causing the code to require the 'next/dist/compiled/@opentelemetry/api' module instead (which properly works)
+	// #"@opentelemetry/api" = "./.next/standalone/node_modules/cf/templates/shims/throw.ts"
+	const tracerFile = path.join(
+		paths.standaloneAppDir,
+		"node_modules",
+		"next",
+		"dist",
+		"server",
+		"lib",
+		"trace",
+		"tracer.js"
+	);
+
+	const pacthedTracer = fs
+		.readFileSync(tracerFile, "utf-8")
+		.replaceAll(
+			/\w+\s*=\s*require\([^/]*opentelemetry.*\)/g,
+			`throw new Error("@opentelemetry/api")`
+		);
+
+	writeFileSync(tracerFile, pacthedTracer);
+}