ERROR in native_modules/node-gyp1.js from Terser plugin 'return' outside of function

[clementlize]

Bug report

I am trying to make an app using electron-forge and I have an error from terser-webpack-plugin. I can start my app but I can't run a make. My project is based on this template, based itself on the electron-forge Webpack+Typescript template

Actual Behavior

$ electron-forge package --platform linux
✔ Checking your system
✖ Compiling Main Process Code

An unhandled error has occurred inside Forge:
Compilation errors in the main process: assets by status 9.41 MiB [cached] 7 assets
1712 modules

ERROR in native_modules/node-gyp1.js
native_modules/node-gyp1.js from Terser plugin
'return' outside of function [native_modules/node-gyp1.js:45,2]
    at js_error (/mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/terser-webpack-plugin/node_modules/terser/dist/bundle.min.js:550:11)
    at croak (/mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/terser-webpack-plugin/node_modules/terser/dist/bundle.min.js:1274:9)
    at statement (/mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/terser-webpack-plugin/node_modules/terser/dist/bundle.min.js:1477:21)
    at _embed_tokens_wrapper (/mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/terser-webpack-plugin/node_modules/terser/dist/bundle.min.js:1339:26)
    at block_ (/mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/terser-webpack-plugin/node_modules/terser/dist/bundle.min.js:2172:20)
    at statement (/mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/terser-webpack-plugin/node_modules/terser/dist/bundle.min.js:1403:29)
    at _embed_tokens_wrapper (/mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/terser-webpack-plugin/node_modules/terser/dist/bundle.min.js:1339:26)
    at if_ (/mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/terser-webpack-plugin/node_modules/terser/dist/bundle.min.js:2155:44)
    at statement (/mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/terser-webpack-plugin/node_modules/terser/dist/bundle.min.js:1473:24)
    at _embed_tokens_wrapper (/mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/terser-webpack-plugin/node_modules/terser/dist/bundle.min.js:1339:26)

webpack 5.39.1 compiled with 1 error in 18683 ms
    at cb (/mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/@electron-forge/plugin-webpack/src/WebpackPlugin.ts:252:31)
    at finalCallback (/mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compiler.js:415:32)
    at /mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compiler.js:432:13
    at Hook.eval [as callAsync] (eval at create (/mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/tapable/lib/HookCodeFactory.js:33:10), <anonymous>:6:1)
    at Hook.CALL_ASYNC_DELEGATE [as _callAsync] (/mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/tapable/lib/Hook.js:18:14)
    at onCompiled (/mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compiler.js:430:21)
    at /mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compiler.js:1106:17
    at Hook.eval [as callAsync] (eval at create (/mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/tapable/lib/HookCodeFactory.js:33:10), <anonymous>:6:1)
    at Hook.CALL_ASYNC_DELEGATE [as _callAsync] (/mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/tapable/lib/Hook.js:18:14)
    at /mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compiler.js:1102:33
    at finalCallback (/mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compilation.js:2249:11)
    at /mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compilation.js:2540:11
    at Hook.eval [as callAsync] (eval at create (/mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/tapable/lib/HookCodeFactory.js:33:10), <anonymous>:6:1)
    at Hook.CALL_ASYNC_DELEGATE [as _callAsync] (/mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/tapable/lib/Hook.js:18:14)
    at /mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/webpack/lib/Compilation.js:2533:38
    at eval (eval at create (/mnt/datadev/perso/myapp/node_modules/tapable/lib/HookCodeFactory.js:33:10), <anonymous>:17:1)
error Command failed with exit code 1.

Here is my package.json dependencies:

"dependencies": {
    "@babel/core": "^7.16.10",
    "@babel/plugin-transform-runtime": "^7.16.10",
    "@babel/preset-env": "^7.16.11",
    "@babel/preset-react": "^7.16.7",
    "@babel/preset-typescript": "^7.16.7",
    "@babel/runtime": "^7.16.7",
    "@emotion/react": "^11.7.1",
    "@emotion/styled": "^11.6.0",
    "@fontsource/roboto": "^4.5.1",
    "@journeyapps/sqlcipher": "^5.3.1",
    "@mui/material": "^5.2.8",
    "ajv": "^8.9.0",
    "aws-sdk": "^2.1062.0",
    "dotenv": "^14.2.0",
    "electron-is-dev": "^2.0.0",
    "electron-store": "^8.0.1",
    "jsonfile": "^6.1.0",
    "mock-aws-s3": "^4.0.2",
    "nock": "^13.2.2",
    "postcss-loader": "^6.2.1",
    "react": "17.0.2",
    "react-dom": "17.0.2",
    "react-hot-loader": "4.13.0",
    "sqlite3": "^5.0.2"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@electron-forge/cli": "6.0.0-beta.57",
    "@electron-forge/maker-deb": "6.0.0-beta.57",
    "@electron-forge/maker-rpm": "6.0.0-beta.57",
    "@electron-forge/maker-squirrel": "6.0.0-beta.57",
    "@electron-forge/maker-zip": "6.0.0-beta.57",
    "@electron-forge/plugin-webpack": "6.0.0-beta.57",
    "@marshallofsound/webpack-asset-relocator-loader": "0.5.0",
    "@testing-library/jest-dom": "5.14.1",
    "@testing-library/react": "11.2.7",
    "@types/electron-devtools-installer": "2.2.0",
    "@types/jest": "26.0.23",
    "@types/react": "17.0.11",
    "@types/react-dom": "17.0.8",
    "@types/react-redux": "^7.1.22",
    "@types/sqlite3": "^3.1.8",
    "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "4.27.0",
    "@typescript-eslint/parser": "4.27.0",
    "@vercel/webpack-asset-relocator-loader": "^1.7.0",
    "ajv-formats": "^2.1.1",
    "babel-loader": "8.2.2",
    "cross-env": "7.0.3",
    "css-loader": "^6.5.1",
    "electron": "13.1.2",
    "electron-rebuild": "^3.2.7",
    "eslint": "7.29.0",
    "eslint-config-prettier": "8.3.0",
    "eslint-config-standard": "16.0.3",
    "eslint-plugin-import": "2.23.4",
    "eslint-plugin-node": "11.1.0",
    "eslint-plugin-prettier": "3.4.0",
    "eslint-plugin-promise": "5.1.0",
    "eslint-plugin-react": "7.24.0",
    "eslint-plugin-standard": "5.0.0",
    "file-loader": "^6.2.0",
    "jest": "27.0.4",
    "npm-run-all": "4.1.5",
    "prettier": "2.3.1",
    "sass": "^1.48.0",
    "sass-loader": "^12.4.0",
    "style-loader": "^3.3.1",
    "ts-jest": "27.0.3",
    "typescript": "4.3.4",
    "wait-on": "5.3.0"
  },

Expected Behavior

The make process should complete, I'm sorry I don't know much about terser-webpack-plugin in particular.

How Do We Reproduce?

This is the tricky part. I made a new project using the electron-forge Webpack+Typescript template and added the native modules (sqlite3, @journeyapps/sqlcipher) and everything works perfectly.

I am currently unable to reproduce this outside of my working project. If you have time to investigate, here is the project, the branch to clone is wip_distribute2.

Please paste the results of npx webpack-cli info here, and mention other relevant information

System:
    OS: Linux 5.13 Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (Focal Fossa)
    CPU: (4) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6600 CPU @ 3.30GHz
    Memory: 1.10 GB / 15.54 GB
  Binaries:
    Node: 16.13.2 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.13.2/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.17 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.13.2/bin/yarn
    npm: 8.1.2 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.13.2/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Chrome: 97.0.4692.71
    Firefox: 96.0
  Packages:
    babel-loader: 8.2.2 => 8.2.2 
    css-loader: ^6.5.1 => 6.5.1 
    file-loader: ^6.2.0 => 6.2.0 
    postcss-loader: ^6.2.1 => 6.2.1 
    react-hot-loader: 4.13.0 => 4.13.0 
    sass-loader: ^12.4.0 => 12.4.0 
    style-loader: ^3.3.1 => 3.3.1

I obviously took a close look at the issue #281 but nothing mentioned here works. The issue is also pretty old and concerned old versions.

The version requested by my dependencies is 5.1.1 ; I tried to pin 5.3.0 but the same error occurs.
I also tried to pin terser version, without success.

[alexander-akait]

Can you provide code of node-gyp1.js?

[clementlize]

Can you provide code of node-gyp1.js?

I spent nearly an hour looking for this file, but I couldn't find it. Not in the node_modules, not in the out folder, I don't understand where it can be.

Do you know where it might be?

[alexander-akait]

Sorry no, I don't know your application and configuration, but based on an error message, you have invalid JS, i.e. global return

[clementlize]

Ok thank you for your help. I ended up building again my project from scratch, I don't have any clue how this happened.

[bakabird]

For guys who come later, you can use this to handle it 。