Failed to inspect file when trying to use highlight.js

[chr15m]

Source here: https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/blob/main/src/languages/isbl.js

Compilation failed!
Failed to inspect file
  node_modules/highlight.js/lib/languages/isbl.js

it was required from
  node_modules/highlight.js/lib/index.js

Errors encountered while trying to parse file
  node_modules/highlight.js/lib/languages/isbl.js
  {:line 1, :column 1, :message "The file could not be parsed as JavaScript."}

RuntimeException: Exception parsing "node_modules/highlight.js/lib/languages/isbl.js"

I guess like #1110 this is a Google Closure issue?

[thheller]

highlight.js has been problematic for a while, there are a couple other issues regarding that. It is not #1110.

Luckily this is easily worked arround since that file is unlikely to be used anyways. If you control where/how highlight.js is used I recommend rewriting your requires to only include what you actually need.

You can see an example of this in this lib. https://github.com/superstructor/re-highlight

So, basically instead of (:require ["highlight.js" :as hl]) you do https://github.com/superstructor/re-highlight/blob/37cd2ea194351c5c8b49e048327b66d340132405/src/re_highlight/core.cljs#L5-L6, and only actually require the support you need. This makes the build substantially smaller, without any downside.

[chr15m]

Unfortunately it is being consumed by an npm dep but I think I figured out a way to squash the error by injecting an empty JS module into that one file during post-install. Thanks!

[thheller]

You can do :js-options {:resolve {"highlight.js" {:target :npm :require "highlight.js/lib/core"}}} in the build config and then add the additional stuff you actually need by requiring it yourself. That should also address the problem.