How to fix err_ossl_evp_unsupported On NodeJs 17


If you are using NodeJs 17 for development purposes and your framework is either Angular or VueJs or React and using Webpack, This can be caused by web pack nodejs 17: digital envelope routines::unsupported · Issue #14532 · webpack/webpack (github.com).

Node 17 has announced one workaround for this.

If you hit an ERR_OSSL_EVP_UNSUPPORTED error in your application with Node.js 17, it’s likely that your application or a module you’re using is attempting to use an algorithm or key size which is no longer allowed by default with OpenSSL 3.0. A new command-line option--openssl-legacy-provider, has been added to revert to the legacy provider as a temporary workaround for these tightened restrictions.

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To fix this issue you need to set NODE_OPTIONS environment vale to --openssl-legacy-provider there are several ways to set this environment variable.

On UNIX based system you can use export or on windows, you can use the set command.

$ export NODE_OPTIONS=--openssl-legacy-provider
> set NODE_OPTIONS=--openssl-legacy-provider

Or you can do this using package.json the file scripts section as given below

"scripts": {
    "start": "react-scripts --openssl-legacy-provider start",
    "build": "react-scripts --openssl-legacy-provider build",
    "test": "react-scripts test",
    "eject": "react-scripts eject"
}

Even you can downgrade the Node.js version to 16 or other. The node will fix this issue in the coming releases.


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