Using Web3Auth with nextjs 13 results in error

[yashovardhan]

Related to this discussion on stack overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74222190/importing-web3-to-next-js-results-in-error

The web3.js version being used in Web3Auth is 1.8.0 however, it is incompatible as mentioned in the stack overflow discussion. Can you help me roll it back to a previous version?

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[shahbaz17]

Simply upgrade your node version to v18

[yashovardhan]

As mentioned in this issue on web3.js, you can do the following combinations

web3.js v1.8.0 + Next.js v13.0.2 + Node.js v18 → all good!
web3.js v1.8.0 + Next.js v13.0.2 + Node.js v16 → broken with reported error
web3.js v1.7.4 + Next.js v13.0.2 + Node.js v16/v18 → all good!

Use Node v18 ideally. If you want to use Node v16, you can enforce in your package json to use web3.js v1.7.4