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Vercel deployment fails: 'Module not found: Can't resolve sharp'

next/image's sharp dependency needs platform-specific binaries; pnpm's strict store can skip them.

What's going on

Local builds work; Vercel build errors with 'Module not found: Can't resolve sharp' even though sharp is transitively required by next/image. The error only appears on deploy, not in local development.

The cause is the interaction between pnpm's strict dependency resolution and sharp's install-time binary fetch. pnpm does not run install scripts for nested dependencies by default, but sharp relies on a postinstall hook to fetch its platform-specific prebuilt binary. Without that binary, the import fails at runtime on Vercel's build environment. The fix involves either hoisting sharp into your top-level dependencies and explicitly allowing its build scripts, or using pnpm's onlyBuiltDependencies configuration.

pnpm add @commons/agent

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