JS not working past Hugo v76.5

[spearw]

Is this a BUG REPORT or FEATURE REQUEST?:
bug

What happened:

Updating Hugo past v76.5 gives webpack_require error, and all the JS breaks. This looks like a known issue, so I won't go into it more.

What you expected to happen:

JS working

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

Update Hugo past v76.5

Anything else we need to know?:

I want to update Hugo for some of their features to update my website. It seems like this is a longstanding issue with Syna, (I don't mind looking for a fix myself). Are there any leads that you have on fixing this issue so I don't have to start from ground 0? I will report back if I find a fix. Thanks!

Environment:

• Syna Theme version:
• Hugo version:
• Others:

[stp-ip]

Known issue and PRs are welcome :)
For now using Hugo v76.5 is the solution, if asset compilation is necessary. Pages without asset compilation should work with later versions as well.

[spearw]

Thanks for the response. This site I'm building is a side project for me, so the development is not progressing that quickly, but I was hoping you'd be able to point me in a direction for looking at updating Syna to be compatible with later versions with asset compilation. Thanks!

[stp-ip]

A bit more information here: #847
As far as I could track it down until I ran into not having enough time was it being related with the difference between webpack 4 and 5. But couldn't pin it down to a specific thing.

[stp-ip]

Looking into it and will update here how far I got.

[spearw]

Great. Thank you.

[stp-ip]

Should have a few more specifics tomorrow I reckon.

[stp-ip]

Small update: Got it working with the latest Hugo version and think I know the culprit. Want to be sure on the whole issue before pushing it. Traveling next week, but afterwards should have a bit of time to finalize it.

[spearw]

That's excellent news!

[spearw]

Hey @stp-ip, any luck tracking down the culprit?

[stp-ip]

A few things came up 😅, but have it on my list for next week. 🤞

[spearw]

Super! I really appreciate this project and the work you're putting in.

[stp-ip]

Had quite a few urgent refugee projects take up our time. We or I will get back to this as soon as possible.

[spearw]

No worries. Thanks for letting me know.

[ilgun]

Subscribing to this one as well.

[Natureshadow]

I found out that disbaling JS minification works around the issue:

[minify]
disableJS = true

Thus, I think this issue came up with the bump of tdewolff/minify in Hugo 0.77.0.