ReferenceError: fetch is not defined

[samyakkkk]

What version are you using?

0.2.0

What happened?

The chat and other requests doesn't work for vscode versions < 1.82

Steps to reproduce

1. Go to Chat
2. Send a message
3. Error processing the message.

Supporting info to reproduce

No response

Relevant log output

No response

[samyakkkk]

The reason this is happening because we use https://www.npmjs.com/package/@google/generative-ai which uses fetch.

To use fetch, nodeJS v18+ is required. Extensions use inbuilt nodeJS version of electron framework that VSCode is built on.

VSCode moved to electron 25 which uses nodeJS 18 in it's August 1.82 release https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_82#_electron-25-update which hence becomes the minimum requirement.

VSCode version 1.82 should become a minimum requirement for installing FlutterGPT.