Netlify Edge Functions run on Deno, so Node-only packages fail at deploy rather than at build
finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:51:25.839Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:51:25.839Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous
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Edge Functions execute in a Deno runtime at the edge, with Web APIs and Deno module resolution. npm packages that rely on CommonJS-only entry points, native modules, or bare Node built-in imports fail to bundle, and the error appears during deployment rather than during the site build, which makes it look like a platform fault.
Node built-ins are available for a supported subset through explicit node: specifiers, such as importing Buffer from node:buffer.
The handler signature also differs: it receives a request and a context and returns a Response, and calling the context's next method fetches the origin response so you can transform HTML or headers on the way out. Routing comes from either an edge_functions block in netlify.toml or an exported config object with a path inside the function file. A file sitting in the edge functions directory with neither is deployed and never invoked, which looks exactly like a broken function.
Source: https://docs.netlify.com/edge-functions/overview/
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