Buffer not defined error with Meteor 1.5-beta.17+

[akanix42]

In Meteor 1.5, the Buffer polyfill will no longer being included by default (as noted here: meteor/meteor#8645).
This breaks vue-component-dev-client.
The fix is to add this line to load the buffer yourself prior to import from node_modules:

global.Buffer = global.Buffer || require("buffer").Buffer;

I fixed it locally by creating a buffer.js file with the above line and making it the first import in dev-client.js.

[eybarta]

hey @nathantreid, sorry for my noobieness on this :-\

I tried doing what you did, added buffer.js to same folder as dev-client.js and importing it before everything, but I get an ecmascript error when trying to build..

Could you show me the syntax you're using and the location of buffer.js ? don't you need to 'export' the buffer in order to 'import' it?

thank u

[akanix42]

@eybarta, this is what I did:

1. buffer.js

global.Buffer = global.Buffer || require("buffer").Buffer;

2. dev-client.js

import './buffer';
// ... rest of file ...

[eybarta]

@nathantreid thanks for your reply.. that's what I tried but didn't work for me, I downgraded meteor for now. thx.

[thearabbit]

Now Meteor 1.5 is released.