Can't get node-fetch to work (my first Azure function)

Question

Hi,

I am writing my first Azure function in node.js. I would like to post a result to a URL, I would like to use Node Fetch. However, when I try to include the fetch function with

const fetch = require('node-fetch');

The function fails with:

HTTP response code
500 Internal Server Error

and an error in the log:

FailureException: Error: Cannot find module 'node-fetch'

I have used the shell to run npm, and npm install node-fetch and both are successful. I have set the function to run in Node V 16.

Is there anything I am doing obviously wrong?

Regards

Answer 1

@Jim Burke Looks like the module is not correctly installed. Please make sure that you have installed the module in D:\home\site\wwwroot directory and please verify that node_modules is created and verify whether your package is installed correctly as documented here. Node 16 is in the preview and only supported in 4.x function runtime.

Answer 2

It looks like node-fetch is not compatible with requires in this version of Node (v16), it works with imports but that requires the azure function to be type: module which I don't think can be achieved. I have solved this by using axios which does work with requires in this version.