App does not load because `process.version.slice` is not defined

1

Since today, my app does not load correctly on Google Chrome. In the console, I see this error:

image
image937×179 39 KB

and this leads to an error in the `_stream_writable.js" module:

image
image1013×308 38.1 KB

Any idea what might cause this?

Sometimes, the app loads if I reload the page. But not on the first attempt. Only Chrome (macOS) is affected, Firefox and Safari show the page without this error message.

2

Seems like server code is being executed in the browser

process.version is a node property

https://nodejs.org/api/process.html#process_process_version

3

I ran into a similar issue in Chrome on Mac OS X (and Ubuntu) today. The only way I could “fix it” was to delete Chrome data ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome, as Clearing Browser Data did not work. Very mysterious as the error just showed up, appeared to corrupt Chrome and now I can’t replicate it.

4

It seems as if the Apollo Client Tools extension for Chrome is the actual culprit: App does not load because `process.version.slice` is not defined · Issue #11345 · meteor/meteor · GitHub

2 Likes