globalThis Error in Safari

[amrap030]

• Version: "ipfs-core": "^0.12.2"

• Platform: Darwin amrap030-mbp-37305.fritz.box 18.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 18.0.0: Wed Aug 22 20:13:40 PDT 2018; root:xnu-4903.201.2~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

Severity: High

Description:

When using ipfs-core in a Vue 3 Application, everything works fine in Chrome and Firefox. However, in Safari Version 12.0 (14606.1.36.1.9) I am getting the following error: ReferenceError: Can't find variable: globalThis and the UI is not loading anymore.

Steps to reproduce the error:

You can reproduce the error by using the following repository: https://github.com/amrap030/ipfs-safari

You just need to run npm install and then npm run serve

You should get the error when running the current state of the repository. After removing everything related to ipfs in this file, the application ui loads as expected and the error is gone.

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[SgtPooki]

js-ipfs is being deprecated in favor of Helia. You can https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/issues/4336 and read the migration guide.

Please feel to reopen with any comments by 2023-06-02. We will do a final pass on reopened issues afterward (see https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/issues/4336).

This issue is most likely resolved in Helia, please try it out!