The most frustrating error in Node.js 🤬 (Day 20/30)

Day 20 of the final 30-Day Placement Sprint. 🚀

We are in the final 10 days! Today was all about testing the end-to-end data flow of C-Flux (my ChatGPT clone).

The Good:
I successfully integrated Upstash Cloud Redis. The flow is working! The upload-file API successfully hits Cloudinary, pushes the job to the Redis queue, and the background worker successfully fetches the work.

The Bad:
I wasted an embarrassing amount of time debugging why my file wasn't uploading to Cloudinary. The reason? I misspelled "cloud_name" in my .env file. Every developer knows this pain. 😂

The Ugly (I need your help! 🚨):
The worker is fetching the file, but it is failing at the parsing stage. The pdf-parse library is an older library built on CommonJS, but my entire backend is built using ES6 Modules (ESM). I tried a few escape hatches to require it, but nothing is working so far.

Has anyone successfully used the pdf-parse library inside an ES6 environment? Drop the fix in the comments and save my project! 👇

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Live Project (COREWIRE): corewire.vercel.app

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