# Workaround for js.Build on modules?

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/workaround-for-js-build-on-modules/28654>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [October 4, 2020, 6:01am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/workaround-for-js-build-on-modules/28654 "2020-10-04T06:01:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![olafghanizadeh](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/olafghanizadeh/32/4494_2.png) [@olafghanizadeh](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/olafghanizadeh)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 12:12pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/workaround-for-js-build-on-modules/28654/3 "2020-10-04T12:12:11Z")

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It would work like this if the npm dependencies was not loaded from a Hugo module. Since Hugo now can do PostCSS and JS processing (ESBuild) I would like to avoid having to install more tooling to compile the JS.

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