Make this work on Cloudflare workers

[dylanjha]

The require('fs') line crashes in cloudflare workers environment.

https://github.com/muxinc/mux-node-sdk/blob/master/src/utils/jwt.js#L6

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/cant-resolve-fs-in-cloudflare-workers/112762

[maciektr]

@dylanjha I think that node based crypto (https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsonwebtoken) may not work as well.

[CanRau]

Just looked through the code, saw axios and was happy that it's not using http or request or sthg to then stumble upon fs 🥲 So have to use the rest api directly "again" 😅

Totally get that it was build like that, nowadays with all the different environments, Deno, Bun, V8, Workers etc it's really nice to be less Node dependent 🥰

Anyway, this is not stopping us from switching from CF Stream to Mux 🤓

[dylanjha]

For anyone following along, there are a couple core issues here:

• require('fs') crashes in non-node (this is probably fixable in this SDK)
• this package takes a dependency on jsonwebtoken, which uses native node:crypto stuff, which doesn't work in CF workers (this is probably fixable in this SDK, we can use something else)
• CF workers and some of these other node-like environments do support Web Crypto.
• Unfortunately, Web Crypto requires pkcs8 packaged keys, by default Mux gives you pkcs1 packaged secret key
• Mux can make some updates to give people pkcs8 keys instead to make things easier (I'll see if we can do this)
• But short of that, it's fairly easy to convert pkcs8 keys to pkcs1 so that it is compatible with Web Crypto libs

Here's an example in TypeScript for creating a signed token in a way that's compatible with Web Crypto:

import * as jose from "jose";
let rs = require("jsrsasign");

const alg = "RS256";

export async function sign(
  privateKey: any,
  claims: any
): Promise<string> {
  const pk = atob(privateKey);

  const pcks1 = rs.KEYUTIL.getKey(pk);
  const pcks8 = rs.KEYUTIL.getPEM(pcks1, "PKCS8PRV");

  // WebCrypto needs a pcks8 with no header, footer, or newlines
  // So strip these off in the laziest way
  const cleanPcks1 = pcks8
    .replace("-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----", "")
    .replace("-----END PRIVATE KEY-----", "")
    .replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm, "");

  const key = await importPrivateKey(cleanPcks1).catch((e) => {
    console.log(`Error loading key: ${e}`);
  });

  const jwt = await new jose.SignJWT(claims)
    .setProtectedHeader({ alg })
    .setExpirationTime("1d")
    // eslint-disable-next-line
    // @ts-ignore
    .sign(key);

  return jwt;
}

[ramiel]

Is there any plan to support edge runtimes?
As replacement of jsonwebtoken, jose can be used that is safe on non-node environment.

[dylanjha]

Hi folks, version 8 (beta) is available for use and supports other runtimes.

See here for details: https://github.com/muxinc/mux-node-sdk/issues/327

[dylanjha]

Version 8 is released with compatibility for alternate JS runtimes:

https://github.com/muxinc/mux-node-sdk/releases/tag/v8.0.0