String.prototype.startsWith: "undefined is not a constructor"

[dustinfarris]

I'm running acceptance tests in Ember. The tests pass in Chrome, however when I run the tests in Phantom JS, I am getting this error:

TypeError: undefined is not a constructor (evaluating 'type.startsWith('@@cashay')')

which seems to stem from this line:

https://github.com/mattkrick/cashay/blob/27320c4ebd5c5d2ce697479d21a72de7f3d7c73c/src/normalize/duck.js#L38

Any idea what might cause this?

[mattkrick]

Did you set up the redux store for your tests?

On Oct 31, 2016 9:18 AM, "Dustin Farris" [email protected] wrote:

I'm running acceptance tests in Ember. The tests pass in Chrome, however when I run the tests in Phantom JS, I am getting this error:

TypeError: undefined is not a constructor (evaluating 'type.startsWith('@@cashay')')

which seems to stem from this line:

https://github.com/mattkrick/cashay/blob/27320c4ebd5c5d2ce697479d21a72d e7f3d7c73c/src/normalize/duck.js#L38

Any idea what might cause this?

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[dustinfarris]

Think I figured it out. It is because PhantomJS does not support String.prototype.startsWith. I am trying to find a polyfill I can inject.

[mattkrick]

Whoa! Thats interesting. I could use indexOf, startsWith is just a little more expressive

On Oct 31, 2016 10:33 AM, "Dustin Farris" [email protected] wrote:

Think I figured it out. It is because PhantomJS does not support String.prototype.startsWith. I am trying to find a polyfill I can inject.

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[dustinfarris]

Here's a polyfill you could add to cashay's dependencies: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/String.prototype.startsWith

[dustinfarris]

But now getting the same thing for Object.prototype.find

e.g.: https://github.com/mattkrick/cashay/blob/8d9174d478b63883f68b64f82c183b60a3aad0c4/src/normalize/denormalizeStore.js#L56

This may be something I as a user should be responsible for polyfilling (I wonder if babel polyfill would make all of this go away).

[dustinfarris]

Yeah, running everything through babel polyfill makes this all go away.

~~This can be closed as far as I'm concerned, unless there is any docs action you think would be appropriate.~~

[dustinfarris]

I am hitting this again, this time in plain-ol node

var transformSchema = require('cashay').transformSchema;

transformSchema(myRootSchema...

results in

TypeError: undefined is not a function
    at /Users/dustin/Archive/broccoli-cashay-schema/node_modules/cashay/lib/schema/transformSchema.js:127:23

stemming from: https://github.com/mattkrick/cashay/blob/master/src/schema/transformSchema.js#L39

[mattkrick]

ah, now that we don't have the polyfill, it doesn't have startsWith?

[dustinfarris]

Correct—if I install/require the polyfill mentioned above everything works. What do you think about doing this in cashay instead?

Add String.prototype.startsWith to dependencies and in index.js:

import 'string.prototype.startsWith';

(not sure how the dots in the name will affect import)

and/or via babel-polyfill (again) — but it would be a devDependency this time just to generate lib/

[dustinfarris]

Well the fact that I was using node v0.12.6 probably wasn't helping 👎

What minimum version of node do we want to support?

[mattkrick]

I'd say 6 LTS, although I think 4 would work

On Nov 25, 2016 11:24 AM, "Dustin Farris" [email protected] wrote:

Well the fact that I was using node v0.12.6 probably wasn't helping 👎

What minimum version of node do we want to support?

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