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Cannot use require in script

See original GitHub issue

The way the function constructor is created, it is not possible to use require directly. Calling require in your script will result in: ReferenceError: require is not defined.

As a temporary hotfix, you can call the following before your require call:

const require = global.require || global.process.mainModule.constructor._load;

Solution was adapted from here.

It would be great if the function constructor was adapted to allow normal require calls.

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:6 (2 by maintainers)

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jclemcommented, Nov 13, 2019

I’ve just released version 0.3.0, and require is available when using that version! This does not solve the general dependency question @alexbde brings up, which I’ll think about separately.

Thank you for opening this!

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jclemcommented, Nov 13, 2019

Hi! I missed a huge set of notifications being irresponsible with keyboard shortcuts 😆 I’m sorry! I’m looking into this and the open PR on this repo, as well.

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