javascript - jsdom.env not working on node.js C9

Question

So I've been working with Node.js on C9 recently and ran into this problem in a javascript file:

jsdom.env("", function(err, window) {
TypeError: jsdom.env is not a function

Here is my code:

var jsdom = require('jsdom');
var $;
jsdom.env("", function(err, window) {
console.log("what");
if (err) {
    console.error(err);
    return;
}

$ = require("jquery")(window);

$.ajax(settings).done(function (response) {
     console.log(response);
  });
});

I updated all my dependencies as well as Node itself but still get this problem. Does anyone know what's up?

Answer 1

I was facing the same issue. Was looking for the solution all over the web. It turned out that jsdom has updated some of their features since v10. So, I wanted to use jQuery in the Node.js end of an express app. For those who are just looking for answers about how to include jQuery in Node, I would like to mention that you'll need to install jsdom using npm install jsdom and jQuery using npm install jquery. Then:

For jQuery to work in Node, a window with a document is required. Since no such window exists natively in Node, one can be mocked by jsdom as below:

var jsdom = require('jsdom');
const { JSDOM } = jsdom;
const { window } = new JSDOM();
const { document } = (new JSDOM('')).window;
global.document = document;

var $ = jQuery = require('jquery')(window);