Crashes on Node 22.12.0

[joelanman]

Appears to cause a crash on Node 22.12.0 when used as a dependency. It works on 22.9.0 if that helps.

2024-12-10T09:43:38.151622+00:00 app[web.1]: ReferenceError: self is not defined
2024-12-10T09:43:38.151623+00:00 app[web.1]: at Object.<anonymous> (/app/node_modules/accessible-autocomplete/dist/accessible-autocomplete.min.js:1:226)
2024-12-10T09:43:38.151623+00:00 app[web.1]: at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1565:14)
2024-12-10T09:43:38.151623+00:00 app[web.1]: at Object..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1708:10)
2024-12-10T09:43:38.151623+00:00 app[web.1]: at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1318:32)
2024-12-10T09:43:38.151623+00:00 app[web.1]: at Function._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1128:12)
2024-12-10T09:43:38.151624+00:00 app[web.1]: at TracingChannel.traceSync (node:diagnostics_channel:322:14)
2024-12-10T09:43:38.151624+00:00 app[web.1]: at wrapModuleLoad (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:219:24)
2024-12-10T09:43:38.151624+00:00 app[web.1]: at node:internal/modules/esm/translators:229:5
2024-12-10T09:43:38.151624+00:00 app[web.1]: at ModuleWrap.<anonymous> (node:internal/modules/esm/translators:196:7)
2024-12-10T09:43:38.151624+00:00 app[web.1]: at ModuleJobSync.runSync (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:395:35)
2024-12-10T09:43:38.151624+00:00 app[web.1]: 
2024-12-10T09:43:38.151625+00:00 app[web.1]: Node.js v22.12.0

Tested via these dependencies in the prototype kit:

    "@x-govuk/govuk-prototype-components": "3.0.4",
    "govuk-country-and-territory-autocomplete": "2.0.0",
    "hmrc-frontend": "6.4.0"

tested with version 3.0.1 of autocomplete

[joelanman]

the accessible autocomplete package.json looks like this:

{
  "name": "accessible-autocomplete",
  "version": "2.0.4",
  "main": "dist/accessible-autocomplete.min.js",

with a reference to the file causing the issue - might that be related?

[joefhall]

I'm getting the same problem with Vite / SvelteKit (Node v20.17.0). I was able to get round it by disabling server-side rendering for the page where I'm using the accessible autocomplete, but obviously that isn't ideal.

[astagi]

+1 can't use it right now in a Gatsby project, please make accessible-autocomplete SSR friendly 🙏

[astagi]

cc @owenatgov

[astagi]

I think that the problem resides in polyfills used to build the library (see also pixijs/pixijs#7703 (comment)). I tried to clone and build accessible-autocomplete using the following .browserlistrc configuration and self variable disappears.

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