## What happened
I was moving my Remix app to Passage and the client side worked fine, cookie stored properly, but the server side blew up with TypeError: __vite_ssr_import_2__.default is not a constructor when I called new Passage. Others hit the same error in Astro SSR mode and SvelteKit. The thread closed in September 2024 with a maintainer confirming the fix.
## The fix that worked
The default import of passage-node broke under Vite SSR in Remix, Astro, and SvelteKit. It was fixed in v2.11.0 of the package, and the maintainers also recommend switching to the named import syntax, import { Passage } from '@passageidentity/passage-node', since thats the only syntax the next major version will support. Upgrade to at least 2.11.0 and change your import.