Uncaught TypeError: exec is not a function

[grzeczko]

I'm getting the following error when attempting to require google-translate-api:

Uncaught TypeError: exec is not a function

I'm including it with the following code:

const translate = require('google-translate-api');

When I look at my console, here is the code snippet it's complaining about:

`var isWindows = process.platform === 'win32'
var path = require('path')
var exec = require('child_process').exec
var osTmpdir = require('os-tmpdir')
var osHomedir = require('os-homedir')

// looking up envs is a bit costly.
// Also, sometimes we want to have a fallback
// Pass in a callback to wait for the fallback on failures
// After the first lookup, always returns the same thing.
function memo (key, lookup, fallback) {
var fell = false
var falling = false
exports[key] = function (cb) {
var val = lookup()
if (!val && !fell && !falling && fallback) {
fell = true
falling = true
exec(fallback, function (er, output, stderr) {
falling = false
if (er) return // oh well, we tried
val = output.trim()
})
}
exports[key] = function (cb) {
if (cb) process.nextTick(cb.bind(null, null, val))
return val
}
if (cb && !falling) process.nextTick(cb.bind(null, null, val))
return val
}
}`

Anyone know what the issue may be?

Thank you.

[BriungRi]

I was trying to build a web application that used this package, and I ran into the same issue as you. I think it's because this package is meant to be used in a backend node.js service rather than from a browser. I found the snippet that was err'ing out from the osenv package, and I noticed that some other javascript users ran into similar issues

ref: ActiveCampaign/postmark.js#1

[braco]

@BriungRi good call, it seems to be from the configstore package:

% npm ls osenv
/project
└─┬ google-translate-api@2.3.0
  └─┬ configstore@2.1.0
    └── osenv@0.1.5 

Doesn't seem like @matheuss is still maintaining this repo