Build failing when using node-fetch in a serverless function

[jen]

Great, making progress! As for node-fetch, I think this post will be helpful:

"Error: Cannot find module 'node-fetch'" when deploying function

hi @jhull, do you have your function dependencies in a package.json inside the function folder? If so, our buildbot will not automatically run npm install in those folders. You’ll need to add something like cd path_where_function lives/ && npm install && rest of your build command. This will ensure your dependencies are installed. Our buildbot only runs npm install (or yarn install) for the root package.json. That’s why that added step is needed. You can, instead, have your function dependencie…

And I believe node-fetch has a peer dependency, the encoding module, so you may have to install that if you don’t have it already. It’s mentioned in that thread.

Let us know how it goes!