"TypeError: root is not an Object" in react-native@0.59

[hkaju]

We're trying to use react-async in a React Native project and getting an immediate red screen with TypeError: root is not an Object. This gets thrown from https://github.com/ghengeveld/react-async/blob/a1aa8231ad631b6edc98a73f2a9abdec8ed70681/packages/react-async/src/useAsync.js#L54

We've traced the issue back to https://github.com/ghengeveld/react-async/blob/a1aa8231ad631b6edc98a73f2a9abdec8ed70681/packages/react-async/src/useAsync.js#L7 that does not resolve to global for some reason. If I remove the circular reference check global.global === global the error goes away but I don't know if that's quite correct.

Looks like this was introduced in c5a4e09

[hkaju]

Downgrade to 7.0.1 gets rid of the error too.

[ghengeveld]

Clearly, what fixed an issue in Node.js has broken it in React Native. This will require some work to get it right. Do you know how React Native usually deals with globals?

[ghengeveld]

React Native apparently defines global.GLOBAL in all caps. I think omitting the check is fine, but a nicer way would be to add the all caps alternative to the condition.

[ghengeveld]

Fixed in v7.0.5.

[novemberborn]

@ghengeveld I don't see 7.0.5 on npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-async

[ghengeveld]

Thanks for letting me know! Forgot to do the actual npm publish. It's there now 👍