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The upgrade to Node 24 with Nuxt Content and Vercel on my portfolio was really painful: better-sqlite3 not working. The fix? Use postgresql 🥹

daniel r(ooooooh) in nyc 🇺🇸

@danielroe.dev

what didn't work?

Better-sqlite3 on server side. Getting from server: Module did not self-register: '/var/task/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/Release/better_sqlite3.node'. This is working fine on node 22 but not on node 24 🤷‍♂️ I will create an issue on Nuxt Content repository tomorrow 😅

daniel r(ooooooh) in nyc 🇺🇸

@danielroe.dev

13 Jan

did you have approve-builds turned on on your pnpm workspace config?

Loïs

@loisboubault.dev

Using bun for this project and yes better-sqlite3 is present in the trusted dependencies.

13/1/26, 9:28 pm0 reposts0 likes

daniel r(ooooooh) in nyc 🇺🇸

@danielroe.dev

13 Jan

try a different package manager and/or rebuilding better sqlite. it sounds like its native binding wasn't installed

daniel r(ooooooh) in nyc 🇺🇸

@danielroe.dev

13 Jan

(it's very unlikely to be an issue with nuxt content)

Loïs

@loisboubault.dev

14 Jan

I will try again with your advices but I am pretty sure this is not working. Maybe this is not related to Nuxt Content and more on Vercel side.

daniel r(ooooooh) in nyc 🇺🇸

@danielroe.dev

14 Jan

if I had to guess, I would say it's an issue with how npm installs native bindings. as to why it's happening on Vercel and not locally, you may need to enable corepack, but check your deploy logs to see if you can get any more information ....

vercel.comConfiguring a BuildVercel automatically configures the build settings for many front-end frameworks, but you can also customize the build according to your requirements.