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Uncaught ReferenceError: globalThis is not defined

See original GitHub issue

🐛 bug report

Compiling a package with Node (or Electron-renderer) context and using it triggers this error in some cases.

ReferenceError: globalThis is not defined
    at /packages/linter-ui-default/dist/index.js:1:7989
    at Se (/packages/linter-ui-default/dist/index.js:1:8142)
    at oi (/packages/linter-ui-default/dist/index.js:1:44368)
    at _e (/packages/linter-ui-default/dist/index.js:1:15274)
    at _e (/packages/linter-ui-default/dist/index.js:1:7948)
    at st (/packages/linter-ui-default/dist/index.js:1:15266)
    at Qn.e.forEach.e (/packages/linter-ui-default/dist/index.js:1:83011)
    at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
    at /packages/linter-ui-default/dist/index.js:1:82976)
    at mn.updateTooltip (/packages/linter-ui-default/dist/index.js:1:89363)
    at textEditor.onDidChangeCursorPosition (/packages/linter-ui-default/dist/index.js:1:88651)
    at /packages/linter-ui-default/dist/index.js:1:41580)
    at /packages/linter-ui-default/dist/index.js:1:41857)
    at /packages/linter-ui-default/dist/index.js:1:41746)

🎛 Configuration (.babelrc, package.json, cli command)

  "engines": {
    "atom": ">=1.19.0 <2.0.0",
    "electron": ">=5.x"
  },
  "targets": {
    "main": {
      "context": "node",
      "includeNodeModules": {
        "atom": false,
        "electron": false,
        "atom-package-deps": false,
        "disposable-event": false
      },
      "outputFormat": "commonjs",
      "isLibrary": true
    }
  },

    "build": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production parcel build --target main ./lib/index.ts",

🤔 Expected Behavior

globalThis should not be needed?

😯 Current Behavior

Parcel generates globalThis

💁 Possible Solution

Use unbundled JS

🔦 Context

https://github.com/steelbrain/linter-ui-default/issues/617

💻 Code Sample

https://github.com/steelbrain/linter-ui-default

🌍 Your Environment

Software	Version(s)
Parcel	“parcel”: “2.0.0-nightly.562”,
Node	12
npm/Yarn	6
Operating System	win 10

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Comments:17 (17 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

mischniccommented, Feb 2, 2021

I’m also somewhat surprised that @babel/preset-env doesn’t handle globalThis…

1reaction

mischniccommented, Feb 3, 2021

TIL: preset-env doesn’t really transpile API, only syntax. So we should transpile globalThis ourselves just like global (but probably only when it’s unsupported)