I have a package called all-keyboardevent-keys that exports an object of keyboardevent strings. This package is a dependency in another package that I created, onkey-event-manager, which I have included in a Gatsby site.
Whenever I start the Gatsby development server on my site, I get the following warning:
WARNING Compiled with 1 warnings
warning in ./node_modules/all-keyboardevent-keys/lib/index.js
Critical dependency: the request of a dependency is an expression
In searching around, I have learned that this warning comes from webpack, a library that I know little about.
I would love to resolve this warning in my package so other users don't have a problem. Unfortunately, most of the answers on this site and others are for end users and not package maintainers.
What can I do, as a package author, to resolve this warning?
The dependency package in question, all-keyboard-events, had not been built correctly. I replaced Parcel with Babel, updated the build configurations, built again, and the error was resolved.
I thought this was an instance of Webpack being too particular; instead it was catching an error that my tests cases had missed.
Hopefully that is helpful for anyone else experiencing the same issue.