Sentry in Node.JS - cannot read property captureException of undefined

Question

In my express app I initialise Sentry as follows.

const Sentry = require('@sentry/node');
const Tracing = require('@sentry/tracing');

const app = express();
const server = require('http').createServer(app);


Sentry.init({
    dsn:
        '...',
    integrations: [
        // enable HTTP calls tracing
        new Sentry.Integrations.Http({ tracing: true }),
        // enable Express.js middleware tracing
        new Tracing.Integrations.Express({ app }),
    ],

    // Set tracesSampleRate to 1.0 to capture 100%
    // of transactions for performance monitoring.
    // We recommend adjusting this value in production
    tracesSampleRate: 0.8,
});

app.use(Sentry.Handlers.requestHandler());
// TracingHandler creates a trace for every incoming request
app.use(Sentry.Handlers.tracingHandler());

server.listen(PORT);

Next, I export Sentry as follows from this file:

module.exports = {
    app,
    Sentry,
};

In other files, I would like to use the captureException method to manually report errors to Sentry. In these files I have:

const { Sentry } = require('./path/to/above/file');

Sentry.captureException(ex);

This throws the error to Sentry: cannot read property captureException of undefined which to me sounds like there's an issue with my export / import logic leading to Sentry being undefined, but I don't understand what the issue could be.

Answer 1

Reposting the comment of @Ukor:

Doing this resolves the issue:

import * as Sentry from '@sentry/node';

I also faced the same issue in my react native project and in my case, I was mistakenly importing

import Sentry from "@sentry/react-native

Replacing it with

import * as Sentry from "@sentry/react-native";

resolved the issue.