Import bug with SSR

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug? Bug

What is the current behavior?

**If we use NextJS (Server Side Rendering), we can’t normaly import Places with import Places from 'places.js' . ‘window is not defined’. **

What is the expected behavior? Import normaly with SSR

[JonathanMontane]

@Haroenv Hmm, it’s strange, it seems that the issue here is caused by Zepto in autocomplete.js even when just doing an import.

Here is what I get when importing locally:

node
> const places = require('./dist/src/places.js')
ReferenceError: window is not defined
    at Object.<anonymous> (.../places/node_modules/autocomplete.js/zepto.js:5:119)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:701:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:712:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:600:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:539:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:531:3)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:637:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:22:18)

@Benoit-Ferrer In the meantime, can you follow the FAQ of Zeit and wrap the require in an if statement? https://github.com/zeit/next.js/wiki/FAQ#i-use-a-library-which-throws-window-is-undefined like so:

...
componentDidMount() {
  if (typeof window !== 'undefined') {
    const Places = require('places');
    const placesAutocomplete = ...
  }
}

[Haroenv]

Looks like this is solved for you, feel free to comment with a reproducible example if this still isn’t what you expected 😃