primordials is not defined

[ebdavison]

Expected Behavior

npm install && npm start to work properly to build and run the app

Actual Behavior

After npm install, there were no errors but when I did an npm start, I got the following error regarding primordials:

$ npm start

> [email protected] start /opt/Data/Software/paperless-desktop
> gulp && electron .

fs.js:45
} = primordials;
    ^

ReferenceError: primordials is not defined
    at fs.js:45:5
    at req_ (/opt/Data/Software/paperless-desktop/node_modules/natives/index.js:143:24)
                "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
    at Object.req [as require] (/opt/Data/Software/paperless-desktop/node_modules/natives/index.js:55:10)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/opt/Data/Software/paperless-desktop/node_modules/vinyl-fs/node_modules/graceful-fs/fs.js:1:37)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1063:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1092:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:928:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:769:14)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:952:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:88:18)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] start: `gulp && electron .`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

                "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
{
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/edavison/.npm/_logs/2021-04-30T15_06_20_770Z-debug.log

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

1. git clone the current repo
2. npm install
3. npm start

Specifications

• Version of Paperless: paperless-ng 1.4.0
• Version of Paperless-Desktop: current version in git as of 2021-04-30
• Platform: linux fedora 34
• Version of NodeJS (if applicable): v14.16.1

[ebdavison]

I was able to make the app start by applying the "if you are using npm" section from this stack overflow post:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55921442/how-to-fix-referenceerror-primordials-is-not-defined-in-node

Specifically:

If you are using npm

Using npm-force-resolutions as a preinstall script, you can obtain a similar result as with yarn v1. You need to modify your package.json this way:

{
  // Your current package.json
  "scripts": {
    // Your current package.json scripts
    "preinstall": "npx npm-force-resolutions"
  },
  "resolutions": {
    "graceful-fs": "^4.2.4"
  }
}

npm-force-resolutions will alter the package-lock.json file to set graceful-fsto the wanted version before the install is done.

If you are using a custom .npmrc file in your project and it contains either a proxy or custom registry, you might need to change npx npm-force-resolutions to npx --userconfig .npmrc npm-force-resolutions because as of now, npx doesn't use the current folder .npmrc file by default.

[ebdavison]

Now that the app runs though, I get an error:

However, all of my Correspondents do show up on the left side of the screen:

[ebdavison]