TypeError: self._form.on is not a function

[goodhyun]

I'm having this error while uploading multipart forms via 'me/photos' using webpack/chrome

TypeError: self._form.on is not a function at Request.form (eval at <anonymous> (http://localhost:3000/dist/bundle.js:6239:2),

Isn't this related to this problem?
request/request#1961

[dantman]

Actually the problem in this case is that you're misusing the library. This is a server-side API library meant to run exclusively in Node.js.

If you want to interact with the Facebook API in the browser, you should use Facebook's own JavaScript SDK.

[goodhyun]

Sorry I didn't make myself clear, I was using it on electron which is also relying on node.js
Other apis such as 'me/feed' was okay though.

[dantman]

Then it could be due to that issue.

If they fix it, I'll update the version of request used.

[goodhyun]

Thanks, looks like it affects all the project that uses request, lets say since the recent version of Chrome. 52 maybe...

[yawar-ali]

@goodhyun @dantman any luck with this yet ?

[yawar-ali]

@goodhyun How you tackle this issue and uploaded image to fb ?

[dantman]

For other reasons related to the reliability and attitude towards semver of the request maintainers and the huge amount of completely unused bloat in request this library is switching to using needle to handle HTTP requests.

We need more information now on whether this bug related to request exists anymore as that library has been replaced in the current master.

Though if there are other web-based desktop application environments where Facebook's client-side SDK is not available and Graph API access is done in a server-side style, but node's http are not available. I may consider a switch to isomorphic-fetch.