Using a variable hangs build process when accessed via import - node.js

Question

GitHub discussion w/ solution: https://github.com/prisma/prisma/discussions/4038#discussioncomment-111664
I'm building a full-stack app and I'm using Prisma and Web3. As part of Prisma's build process I use yarn generate to compile the schema. I've run into some strange issue where my program is hanging on a return statement.
// ./modules/Wallet.ts
import Web3 from 'web3'
// create a Web3 connection
export const web3 = new Web3(
process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production'
? 'wss://mainnet.infura.io/ws/v3/redacted'
: 'wss://ropsten.infura.io/ws/v3/redacted'
)
// load an Ethereum wallet from a private key (env var)
const envWallet = () => {
if (!process.env.ETH_PRIVATE_KEY) {
require('dotenv').config()
}
const _wallet = web3.eth.accounts.wallet.add(process.env.ETH_PRIVATE_KEY!)
// successfully logs the loaded wallet on `yarn generate`
console.log(_wallet)
// Issue: `yarn generate` hangs on this line
return _wallet
}
// initialize the wallet
const wallet = envWallet()
// get the address of the wallet
export const getAddress = () => {
return wallet.address
}
// ./types/Query.ts
// If I omit this file from the schema, it will compile successfully
import { queryType } from '#nexus/schema'
import { getAddress } from '../modules/Wallet'
console.log('Test 1') // logged after the console.log(_wallet)
const Query = queryType({
definition(t) {
// simply a GraphQL query that returns the address of the loaded wallet
t.string('getAddress', {
nullable: true,
resolve: (root, args, ctx) => {
console.log('Test 2') // never hits
const address = getAddress()
console.log('Test 3') // never hits
return address
},
})
},
})
export default Query