Unable to serverless package when no lambdas exist about serverless-esbuild HOT 3 OPEN

I am experiencing the same issue.
This is probably an edge case as you would probably not need esbuild if you don't have any function in the first place, and most projects will have Lambdas anyway.

My use case is that I am working on a workshop and I want to start from an empty project (with no Lambda), but with some initial setup already done (like all the necessary plugins installed) as these steps are irrelevant to what I want to show.

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This also happens to me when I try to run sls deploy, but with existing lambdas (many of them). If I run with [email protected] it fails with the same error as described above. If I run with 1.46.0 the error disappears and I can deploy successfully with nodejs18.x.

I had to adjust esbuild version to work with 1.46.0 or ˆ1.47.0 as well.

This is preventing my team from upgrading our lambdas to nodejs20.x. So it's an important issue.

One workaround we've found is to create the empty folder .esbuild/.serverless/ before running sls deploy and it works well with serverless-esbuild@ˆ1.50.0 and esbuild@ˆ0.19.0 (latest versions as of now).

But it's not an ideal solution.

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This also occurs if a repo does define lambdas, but they all have enabled: false set during a given deployment.

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