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Angular 8 - global is not defined

See original GitHub issue

I recently migrated an Angular 7 application (that was using chartist) to Angular 8. After migration the app no longer works with the following error in console: Uncaught ReferenceError: global is not defined at chartist.js:1173 Screenshot from 2019-09-21 19-01-28

chartist version 0.11.4

It seems that Angular CLI removed shim for global https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/8160#issuecomment-386153833 reasoning here: https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/9827#issuecomment-369578814 and library authors should not rely on it any more.

workaround mentioned in first linked issue works, but its still just a workaround that is mentioned nowhere in chartist documentation (and ideally should not be required)

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Created 4 years ago
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blueskyfishcommented, Sep 21, 2019

I found this walk around:

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>TestApp</title>
  <base href="/">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, viewport-fit=cover">
  <link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico">
  <script>
      window.global = window;
  </script>
</head>
<body>
<app-route></app-root>
</body>
</html>

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dansopercommented, Nov 5, 2019

This has just affected a project I’m working on - I’ve had to lock myself to Chartist 0.11.0 until it’s fixed.