Node JS Shopify API crashing app how to resolve

[Vax]

I'm following the shopify-api-js documentation to make requests to the GraphQL API through my app here (https://github.com/Shopify/shopify-api-js)

The moment I add the first import mentioned in the documentation.

import '@shopify/shopify-api/adapters/node';

I receive this error consistently and can not progress my testing.

╭─ error ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│                                                                                    │
│                                                                                    │
│    The Partners GraphQL API responded unsuccessfully with the HTTP status 200 and  │
│   errors:                                                                          │
│                                                                                    │
│    [                                                                               │
│    {                                                                               │
│      "message": "Too many requests",                                               │
│      "extensions": {                                                               │
│        "code": "429"                                                               │
│      }                                                                             │
│    }                                                                               │
│  ]                                                                                 │
│                                                                                    │
│                                                                                    │
│  To investigate the issue, examine this stack trace:                               │
│    at (graphql-request/src/index.ts:410)                                           │
│      throw new ClientError(                                                        │
│    at step (graphql-request/dist/index.js:63)                                      │
│      op = body.call(thisArg, _);                                                   │
│    at next (graphql-request/dist/index.js:44)                                      │
│      function verb(n) { return function (v) { return step([n, v]); }; }            │
│    at fulfilled (graphql-request/dist/index.js:35)                                 │
│      function fulfilled(value) { try { step(generator.next(value)); } catch (e) {  │
│       reject(e); } }                                                               │
│    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96)             │
│                                                                                

I found others who were reporting a similiar issue here but it looks like there was no answer: https://community.shopify.com/c/shopify-apis-and-sdks/the-partners-graphql-api-responded-unsuccessfu...

Attempted Debugs:

1. Created  a new app with npm init @Shopify/app@latest to see if it was just my app breaking, new demo app works (without theme extension).
2. Tried a npm run dev -- --reset, closing out terminal, starting a new terminal, restarting comp, tried it on a different development store, still hitting the error.

[Impress]

Getting this all the time. If I re-run `npm run dev` about 20 times, it eventually works.

[strategicsystem]

I'm struggling with the same thing only it still doesn't connect even after 20+ attempts. The nature of the error suggests trying over and over may in fact make it worse.  Anyone figured out how to resolve this or what the actual root cause is?

[Impress]

yes  npx shopify app dev --verbose > fail.log  shows the CLI makes 5 GraphQL requests in under a second.

I created an issue here https://github.com/Shopify/cli/issues/1552

In the meantime you can work around this by editing your node_modules/@shopify/cli-kit/dist/private/node/api/graphql.js

on line ~6 edit:

export function graphqlRequest(query, api, url, token, variables, handleErrors = true) {
  const action = async () => {
    const headers = buildHeaders(token);

to read:

export function graphqlRequest(query, api, url, token, variables, handleErrors = true) {
  const action = async () => {
    await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 1500));
    const headers = buildHeaders(token);
    ...

This will make your cli slower, but you'll save time by not re-running the command 20 times.

[strategicsystem]

Thanks a million, this works 🙂