[SPFx 1.23.2 / 1.24.0-beta.2] heft test / Jest fails: sp-core-library unconditionally requires unpublished @msinternal/* packages

[juliemturner]

Target SharePoint environment

SharePoint Online

What SharePoint development model, framework, SDK or API is this about?

💥 SharePoint Framework

Developer environment

Windows

What browser(s) / client(s) have you tested

• 💥 Internet Explorer
• 💥 Microsoft Edge
• 💥 Google Chrome
• 💥 FireFox
• 💥 Safari
• mobile (iOS/iPadOS)
• mobile (Android)
• not applicable
• other (enter in the "Additional environment details" area below)

Additional environment details

• SPFx version: 1.23.2 (GA) — also reproduced on 1.24.0-beta.2
• Node.js version: v22.22.0
• Build system: Heft/Rush Stack (@rushstack/heft 1.2.17), scaffolded with --use-heft (not gulp)
• Jest version: 30.2.0 (via @microsoft/spfx-web-build-rig's default jest.config.json / @rushstack/heft-jest-plugin)
• Affected packages: @microsoft/sp-core-library, @microsoft/sp-http, @microsoft/sp-http-base

Describe the bug / error

@microsoft/sp-core-library's compiled SPFlight.js and SPExperiment.js modules contain unconditional,
top-level require()/import statements for Microsoft-internal packages — e.g. @msinternal/ecs-flight
and @msinternal/odsp-core-bundle. Scanning the wider @microsoft/sp-* dependency tree turns up dozens
more of these (@msinternal/odsp-datasources, @msinternal/odsp-utilities, @msinternal/sp-telemetry,
@msinternal/sp-safehtml, etc.).

These @msinternal/* packages are listed only under sp-core-library's own devDependencies (never as a
regular "dependency"), are not published to the public npm registry, and are therefore never present
in a consuming project's node_modules.

In a production Webpack build this goes unnoticed, since nothing in application code calls SPFlight/
SPExperiment directly, so tree-shaking drops the unused re-export before Webpack needs to resolve the
import. But heft test (Jest) eagerly evaluates CommonJS modules with a plain require(), which
unconditionally runs sp-core-library's module top-level code — including the @msinternal/* require —
for any test file that transitively imports @microsoft/sp-http's AadHttpClient (or anything else in
the dependency graph that reaches SPFlight.js/SPExperiment.js). The test suite fails to even load:

Cannot find module '@msinternal/ecs-flight' from 'node_modules/@microsoft/sp-core-library/lib-commonjs/SPFlight.js'

Require stack:
node_modules/@microsoft/sp-core-library/lib-commonjs/SPFlight.js
node_modules/@microsoft/sp-core-library/lib-commonjs/index.js
node_modules/@microsoft/sp-http-base/lib-commonjs/aadHttpClient/AadHttpClient.js
node_modules/@microsoft/sp-http-base/lib-commonjs/index.js
node_modules/@microsoft/sp-http/lib-commonjs/index.js

This reproduces identically on both the current GA release (1.23.2) and the 1.24.0-beta.2
— the compiled output style changed (tslib helpers in 1.23.2 vs. @swc/helpers
in 1.24.0-beta.2), but the unconditional require("@msinternal/ecs-flight") at the top of SPFlight.js
is unchanged between versions.

The default Jest config shipped by @microsoft/spfx-web-build-rig / @rushstack/heft-jest-plugin has no
moduleNameMapper/transformIgnorePatterns entry to protect against this, so any SPFx project scaffolded
with --use-heft (the current default/only build system) hits this the moment a test touches
AadHttpClient, SPComponentLoader, or anything else that pulls in sp-core-library's flighting code —
with zero custom application code involved.

Steps to reproduce

1. Scaffold (or open) any Heft-based SPFx project on 1.23.2 or 1.24.0-beta.2 that depends on @microsoft/sp-http.

2. Add a trivial test file, e.g.:

   import { AadHttpClient } from '@microsoft/sp-http';

   test('sp-http imports without crashing', () => {
   expect(AadHttpClient).toBeDefined();
   });

3. Run heft test --clean (or npm run test).

4. Observe: "Cannot find module '@msinternal/ecs-flight'" — the test suite fails to run at all.

Expected behavior

heft test / Jest should be able to load and run tests that import @microsoft/sp-http (or any other
@microsoft/sp-* package) without requiring knowledge of Microsoft-internal, unpublished @msinternal/*
packages. Either:

• sp-core-library's published lib/lib-commonjs output should not statically/unconditionally require
  packages that are only its own devDependencies and are never published (e.g. gate them behind a
  dynamic require/lazy accessor, or strip the dead code path from the published build), or
• The default Jest configuration in @microsoft/spfx-web-build-rig / @rushstack/heft-jest-plugin should
  stub out the @msinternal/* scope out of the box.

We worked around it locally with a project-level Jest moduleNameMapper regex stub for ^@msinternal/.*$,
but this shouldn't be necessary for a first-party Microsoft package to be testable.

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✨ This is an AI-generated initial response
🤖 AI-Generated Preliminary Analysis:

Classification: Bug — the report is consistent with an SPFx package-publication defect: supported Heft/Jest tests cannot resolve a statically imported, unpublished dependency.

• SPFx 1.23 uses Heft, which officially invokes Jest for testing.
• type:bug-suspected supports triage but is not maintainer confirmation; the exact root cause remains tentative.
• No duplicate or official known-issue entry was found.

Upgrade check: 1.23.2 is the latest GA reported here. The newer 1.24 beta.5 release notes contain no matching fix, so no fixing version is confirmed.

What to do now:

1. Re-test the minimal reproduction on 1.24 beta.5.
2. Keep a narrowly scoped Jest moduleNameMapper mock for required @msinternal/* modules; avoid broadly masking modules whose behavior is under test.
3. Provide the lockfile and minimal repository for engineering validation.

Useful links:

• Heft-based SPFx toolchain
• SPFx 1.24 preview notes
• No sufficiently relevant related issue found in the searched repos.

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[Ashlesha-MSFT]

Hi
We were able to successfully reproduce the reported SPFx 1.23.2 Heft/Jest issue.
Repro: A minimal Jest test importing AadHttpClient from @microsoft/sp-http fails during test-suite initialization with:

Cannot find module '@msinternal/ecs-flight'

The require stack goes through @microsoft/sp-http → @microsoft/sp-http-base → @microsoft/sp-core-library → SPFlight.js, where @msinternal/ecs-flight is required.

We will raise a bug with the engineering team for further investigation.