Uncaught TypeError: URL is not a constructor using WHATWG URL object support for electron

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Ana Houa picture Ana Houa · Jun 24, 2017 · Viewed 24.6k times · Source

I am trying to read a file using WHATWG URL object support here

and I am getting this error: Uncaught TypeError: URL is not a constructor

here is my code:

Answer

Kowsalya picture Kowsalya · Jun 26, 2017

I faced the same issue, then I looked into the url module and found a solution

For Node V6 use, 

const URL = require('url').Url;

or

const { Url } = require('url');

If you look into the module, it exports 5 methods one of which is Url, so if you need to access Url, you can use either of the two methods

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