ReferenceError: TextEncoder is not defined

[yhojann-cl]

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

Bug

What is the current behavior?

after install mongoose show me a error

const utf8Encoder = new TextEncoder();
                    ^

ReferenceError: TextEncoder is not defined

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce.

in a clean installation run the following commands

$ npm init;
$ npm install mongoose;
$ echo "const mongoose = require('mongoose');" > index.js
$ node index.js;

What is the expected behavior?

show the error

/app/node_modules/whatwg-url/dist/encoding.js:2
const utf8Encoder = new TextEncoder();
                    ^

ReferenceError: TextEncoder is not defined
    at Object.<anonymous> (/app/node_modules/whatwg-url/dist/encoding.js:2:21)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:692:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:25:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/app/node_modules/whatwg-url/dist/url-state-machine.js:5:34)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)

What are the versions of Node.js, Mongoose and MongoDB you are using? Note that "latest" is not a version.

$ node -v
v14.17.5

$ npm -v
6.14.14

$ sudo docker exec -it database-mongodb bash;
root@37127c24c366:/# mongo
MongoDB shell version v5.0.2
...

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release:	20.04
Codename:	focal

$ tail -13 package.json 
    "dependencies": {
        "bcryptjs": "^2.4.3",
        "body-parser": "^1.19.0",
        "cors": "^2.8.5",
        "dotenv": "^10.0.0",
        "express": "^4.17.1",
        "joi": "^17.4.2",
        "jsonwebtoken": "^8.5.1",
        "mongodb": "^4.1.1",
        "mongoose": "^6.0.5",
        "uuid": "^8.3.2"
    }
}
...

Reference: https://github.com/jsdom/whatwg-url/issues/209

[vkarpov15]

Take a look at #10638. Are you using Jest? If so, take a look at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57712235/referenceerror-textencoder-is-not-defined-when-running-react-scripts-test.

[yhojann-cl]

I don't use reactjs.

I saw that issue but I could not answer in the same thread to clarify that it is not solved with an update or changing the framework, that's why I had to make a new thread.

[yhojann-cl]

I resolve the problem, i have installed two version of node but one from apt and other from n package manager, but in the package.json i declared start scripts as: "start": "/usr/bin/node index.js":

$ which nodejs
/usr/bin/nodejs
$ which node
/usr/local/bin/node
$ nodejs -v
v10.19.0
$ node -v
v14.17.5

My script call /usr/bin/node but it is referenced to /usr/bin/nodejs. Works uninstalling nodejs from apt using apt remove nodejs and change full path to relative path, like as "start": "node index.js". Now works fine :D