import { routes } from "~/routes" causes client-side error

[gregory-j-baker]

Reproduction

1. Clone https://github.com/gregory-j-baker/remix-route-config-error and run
2. Open browser devtools and navigate to http://localhost:5173/
3. Observe the error:

   polyfills.js:3 Uncaught ReferenceError: process is not defined
       at node_modules/graceful-fs/polyfills.js (polyfills.js:3:15)
       at __require2 (chunk-RJLA2AWL.js?v=e39b33cd:21:50)
       at node_modules/graceful-fs/graceful-fs.js (graceful-fs.js:2:17)
       at __require2 (chunk-RJLA2AWL.js?v=e39b33cd:21:50)
       at node_modules/fs-extra/lib/fs/index.js (index.js:5:12)
       at __require2 (chunk-RJLA2AWL.js?v=e39b33cd:21:50)
       at node_modules/fs-extra/lib/index.js (index.js:5:6)
       at __require2 (chunk-RJLA2AWL.js?v=e39b33cd:21:50)
       at node_modules/@remix-run/dev/dist/cli/commands.js (@remix-run_route-config.js:89228:15)
       at __require2 (chunk-RJLA2AWL.js?v=e39b33cd:21:50)
   

The problematic file is app/routes/_index.tsx (the import at the top).

System Info

System:
    OS: Linux 6.11 Fedora Linux 41 (Workstation Edition)
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10310U CPU @ 1.70GHz
    Memory: 2.49 GB / 15.29 GB
    Container: Yes
    Shell: 5.9 - /usr/bin/zsh
  Binaries:
    Node: 22.11.0 - /usr/bin/node
    Yarn: 1.22.22 - /usr/bin/yarn
    npm: 10.9.0 - /usr/bin/npm
    pnpm: 9.0.6 - /usr/bin/pnpm
  npmPackages:
    @remix-run/dev: ^2.14.0 => 2.14.0 
    @remix-run/node: ^2.14.0 => 2.14.0 
    @remix-run/react: ^2.14.0 => 2.14.0 
    @remix-run/route-config: ^2.14.0 => 2.14.0 
    @remix-run/serve: ^2.14.0 => 2.14.0 
    vite: ^5.1.0 => 5.4.11

Used Package Manager

npm

Expected Behavior

I need to be able to import { routes } from "~/routes" so I can iterate over the routes and find specific routes by their IDs.

I do this because my application has multilingual URLs and I need to use the route ID to find the correct path to render when generating links.

Actual Behavior

import { routes } from "~/routes" doesn't work client-side because of an error in the graceful-fs module.

[gregory-j-baker]

Not sure if it's relevant, but I have a small RR7-pre.5 proof-of-concept application that does the same thing and it doesn't have this error.