Sinon: require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted

Created on 7 Sep 2016 · 5Comments · Source: sinonjs/sinon

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Sinon version : 1.17.5

Environment : MAC and Windows

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Other libraries you are using:

What did you expect to happen?
npm i --save-dev sinon

then I tried to use sinon in my code

What actually happens

webpack prints a lot of warnings:

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon.js
Critical dependencies:
40:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon.js 40:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/assert.js
Critical dependencies:
236:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/assert.js 236:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/call.js
Critical dependencies:
230:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/call.js 230:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/behavior.js
Critical dependencies:
362:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/behavior.js 362:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/collection.js
Critical dependencies:
164:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/collection.js 164:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/extend.js
Critical dependencies:
102:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/extend.js 102:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/log_error.js
Critical dependencies:
75:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/log_error.js 75:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/format.js
Critical dependencies:
84:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/format.js 84:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/match.js
Critical dependencies:
252:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/match.js 252:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/mock.js
Critical dependencies:
482:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/mock.js 482:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/sandbox.js
Critical dependencies:
161:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/sandbox.js 161:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/spy.js
Critical dependencies:
454:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/spy.js 454:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/stub.js
Critical dependencies:
191:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/stub.js 191:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/test.js
Critical dependencies:
94:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/test.js 94:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/test_case.js
Critical dependencies:
97:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/test_case.js 97:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/typeOf.js
Critical dependencies:
44:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/typeOf.js 44:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/times_in_words.js
Critical dependencies:
40:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/times_in_words.js 40:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/util/event.js
Critical dependencies:
107:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/util/event.js 107:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/util/fake_server_with_clock.js
Critical dependencies:
97:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/util/fake_server_with_clock.js 97:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/util/fake_server.js
Critical dependencies:
243:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/util/fake_server.js 243:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/util/fake_timers.js
Critical dependencies:
69:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/util/fake_timers.js 69:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/util/fake_xdomain_request.js
Critical dependencies:
235:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/util/fake_xdomain_request.js 235:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/util/fake_xml_http_request.js
Critical dependencies:
729:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/util/fake_xml_http_request.js 729:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/walk.js
Critical dependencies:
70:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/walk.js 70:25-32

WARNING in ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/util/core.js
Critical dependencies:
392:25-32 require function is used in a way in which dependencies cannot be statically extracted
 @ ./~/sinon/lib/sinon/util/core.js 392:25-32

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Most helpful comment

Use Sinon 2.0

tomitrescak on 4 Nov 2016

👍3

All 5 comments

Noticed the warning ...

tomitrescak on 7 Sep 2016

So what was the solution? It's not clear to me here, and I'm running into the same issue.

BigPrimeNumbers on 3 Nov 2016

Use Sinon 2.0

tomitrescak on 4 Nov 2016

👍3

That worked. Thanks!

BigPrimeNumbers on 4 Nov 2016

Use Sinon 2.0

How?

c:\ws\ulog>npm install --save-dev sinon
[email protected] c:\ws\ulog
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  +-- [email protected]
  +-- [email protected]
  `-- [email protected]

Edit: figured it out:

c:\ws\ulog>npm install --save-dev [email protected]
[email protected] c:\ws\ulog
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  +-- [email protected]
  +-- [email protected]
  | `-- [email protected]
  +-- [email protected]
  +-- [email protected]
  +-- [email protected]
  | `-- [email protected]
  +-- [email protected]
  `-- [email protected]