Error: Cannot find module '@aws-sdk/abort-controller'

Question

I'm trying to upload an image to the server using multer and multer-s3. but i am not able to declare the multer-s3 package. showing

Error: Cannot find module '@aws-sdk/abort-controller'

this is the declaration code

const multers3 = require('multer-s3');

ERROR

node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:936
  throw err;
  ^

Error: Cannot find module '@aws-sdk/abort-controller'
Require stack:
- /Users/venkat/ecom_server/node_modules/@aws-sdk/lib-storage/dist-cjs/Upload.js
- /Users/venkat/ecom_server/node_modules/@aws-sdk/lib-storage/dist-cjs/index.js
- /Users/venkat/ecom_server/node_modules/multer-s3/index.js
- /Users/venkat/ecom_server/index.js
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:933:15)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:778:27)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1005:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/venkat/ecom_server/node_modules/@aws-sdk/lib-storage/dist-cjs/Upload.js:4:28)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1105:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1159:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1005:19) {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: [
    '/Users/venkat/ecom_server/node_modules/@aws-sdk/lib-storage/dist-cjs/Upload.js',
    '/Users/venkat/ecom_server/node_modules/@aws-sdk/lib-storage/dist-cjs/index.js',
    '/Users/venkat/ecom_server/node_modules/multer-s3/index.js',
    '/Users/venkat/ecom_server/index.js'
  ]
}

node version: v16.15.1

Answer 1

I faced a similar issue. And it was this particular line from the official npm documentation of multer-s3 that solved the issue:

In short, if you are using v2 of aws-sdk, use version 2.x.x of multer-s3, and for v3 of aws-sdk, use 3.x.x of multer-s3.