[BUG] You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type

[jawainc]

Describe the bug
In my Nuxt project I'm using in component like and its giving the error
You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
add import in vue component
import { downloadZip } from "client-zip";

any solution to this error

[Touffy]

Hello Jawad. We may need a little more context to analyze this weird error (what does Nuxt mean with "this file type" ?? it's only a single JavaScript file after all).

However, without knowing why you get this error, I can say that other users have reported issues with SSR frameworks like Nuxt and have found solutions. Have you tried that ?

[jawainc]

I'm using it in Nuxt , this is VueJs frame work and its a SSR framework.
I've also tried it on only for client side but the result is the same: here's the detailed error

` in ./node_modules/client-zip/index.js friendly-errors 20:09:55

Module parse failed: Unexpected token (1:1499) friendly-errors 20:09:55
You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type, currently no loaders are configured to process this file. See https://webpack.js.org/concepts#loaders

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[Touffy]

Thanks, that settles it. Your Nuxt toolchain is set up to read "old" JavaScript and it can't parse the optional chaining operator ?. which is an ES2020 addition. It would also crash on nullish coalescing (??) and the few bigint litterals further down, and unlike the first two, you cannot easily transpile BigInt code to a lower ES version.

You could try to upgrade the transpilation target for Nuxt to ES2020 and hope there isn't an intermediate step that you can't touch with your config files.

Or, if you never create archives larger than 4 GB, just use client-zip version 1.x (which doesn't need BigInts and is already transpiled to ES2018).

[jawainc]

Thanks downgrading to 1.x works

[jawainc]

Resolved with downgrading to version 1.x