webtorrent/node-bencode

Error: `Buffer.from` is not a function

zeankundev opened this issue · 3 comments

zeankundev commented

What version of this package are you using?
2.0.2

What operating system, Node.js, and npm version?
OS: KDE neon 5.23 (Ubuntu 20.04)
Node version: v17.6.0
npm version: 8.5.1

What happened?
When running npm start, the following happened.

A JavaScript error occurred in the main process
Uncaught Exception:
TypeError: Buffer.from is not a function
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/zeankundev/nuTorrent/node_modules/bencode/lib/encode.js:49:22)
    at Module._compile (module.js:428:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:446:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:353:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:308:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:363:17)
    at require (module.js:382:17)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/zeankundev/nuTorrent/node_modules/bencode/lib/index.js:3:18)
    at Module._compile (module.js:428:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:446:10)

What did you expect to happen?
Launching the application to debug

Are you willing to submit a pull request to fix this bug?
No

ckcr4lyf commented

Definitely odd, are you trying to load this in a frontend environment? What does your npm start directive do? Can you share a bit more about the setup, e.g.. if you are using webpack or something for a react app?

zeankundev commented

When I started it with npm start, it fires the following.

electron .

and starting hot server runs as following.

webpack-dev-server --config webpack/webpack-hot-dev-server.config.js --hot --progress --colors --port 2992 --inline
ckcr4lyf commented

What version of webpack are you on? I know from v5 onwards they removed support for node polyfills, I don't know if that affects electron as well, but it would mean Buffer is unavailable.

Is your current project open source? If not, could you make a small electron project that just uses Buffer.from() and see if it works / share it?