diff --git a/src/lib/config/index.ts b/src/lib/config/index.ts
index 48305381..38e12eb1 100644
--- a/src/lib/config/index.ts
+++ b/src/lib/config/index.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import path from 'node:path';
 import fs from 'fs';
 import { Config, ConfigModelProvider, UIConfigSections } from './types';
-import { hashObj } from '../serverUtils';
+import { hashObj } from '../utils/hash';
 import { getModelProvidersUIConfigSection } from '../models/providers';
 
 class ConfigManager {
diff --git a/src/lib/uploads/store.ts b/src/lib/uploads/store.ts
index 29afeb02..711ff523 100644
--- a/src/lib/uploads/store.ts
+++ b/src/lib/uploads/store.ts
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@ import BaseEmbedding from "../models/base/embedding";
 import UploadManager from "./manager";
 import computeSimilarity from "../utils/computeSimilarity";
 import { Chunk } from "../types";
-import { hashObj } from "../serverUtils";
-import fs from 'fs';
+import { hashObj } from '../utils/hash';
 
 type UploadStoreParams = {
     embeddingModel: BaseEmbedding<any>;
diff --git a/src/lib/utils/hash.ts b/src/lib/utils/hash.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9dca22f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/utils/hash.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+import crypto from 'crypto';
+
+export const hashObj = (obj: { [key: string]: any }) => {
+  const json = JSON.stringify(obj, Object.keys(obj).sort());
+  const hash = crypto.createHash('sha256').update(json).digest('hex');
+  return hash;
+};