Using node.js module in Business Application Studio

[jeff_2022]

Hi,

I am trying to use a node.js module (jsftp) in my BAS Project that did not come in on the template generator. I have added it via the terminal with this command: npm install jsftp --save-dev This ends up adding it to the package.json devDependencies section:

I can also see the folder in the project's node_modules folder, and everything seems fine.

Now, when I'm in my controller code, I would expect to be able to use this library. I've tried putting it in the sap.ui.define list at the start of the controller. I've tried that with "jsftp", "../node_modules/jsftp", etc but it does not work.

When I load the page, it errors with a 404-NotFound message of

This happens in various forms no matter what I put in the define section. The same thing happens is I do jQuery.sap.require("jsftp"). I've run npm install and that also does not seem to help anything.

I just can't find a way to utilize in my controller module a library that is added via an node.js module. I apologize for what seems like it should be a simple question, but I've been looking for the answer for several days and can not find anything that works.

Thanks,

Jeff

[gregorw]

Hi Jeff,

would be quite interested in the use case where an sFTP client is needed in the Browser.

Thanks,
Gregor

[jthuijls]

This is probably because your UI5 application does not really run as a server app which is usually where node_module packages are used. There are ways to incorporate an NPM module if you make some adjustments to the UI5.yaml file as laid out in this blog: https://blogs.sap.com/2021/11/15/using-npm-packages-in-ui5-without-shims/

Alternatively you can include the minified JS file as a third party dependency. You register it in the manifest file under JS resources