ReferenceError: atob is not defined

[MigueloAtla]

Not able to use the package.
I'm getting this error only importing from @pdfme/generator.

[hand-dot]

Hi @MigueloAtla

Please check #57 (comment)

If you can create a minimal reproduction environment, I'll check that.

[HaeusslerAdrian]

Hi @hand-dot,

I have the same issue and I created the minimal app
https://github.com/adresta/pdfme_issue

I also found out that this issue exists on node14, but it will go away when upgrading to node16

[hand-dot]

@HaeusslerAdrian

Thank you create a minimal app, I'll check that repo.

[hand-dot]

ref https://symfoware.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-2596.html

[mbiegert]

To sum this up (and for anyone that cannot read japanese): Node.js 16 adds a web API compatibility layer providing a global atob (while discouraging using it in new code) which is a simple alias to Buffer.from(data, "base64").
See https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v16.x/docs/api/globals.html#atobdata.

The linked reference suggests installing a package "atob" on Node.js < 15 and adding it to the global, based on the documentation linked above we can add that alias ourselves instead of adding an additional package:

if (!global.atob) {
    global.atob = (data) => Buffer.from(data, "base64");
}

To close this issue there should probably be some kind of note added to the readme as you probably want to continue support for Node.js 14 while it's still in maintenance mode: https://nodejs.org/en/about/releases/