Raven throws `ReferenceError: window is not defined`

[yingliangzhang]

I'm using raven-js in parse cloud code:

import Raven from 'raven-js';

// Initialize Sentry
Raven.
 config(ENV.SENTRY.DSN)
 .install();

Got following error on raven-js 3.3.0

ReferenceError: window is not defined

/**
 * Enforces a single instance of the Raven client, and the
 * main entry point for Raven. If you are a consumer of the
 * Raven library, you SHOULD load this file (vs raven.js).
 **/

'use strict';

var RavenConstructor = require('./raven');

var _Raven = window.Raven;

var Raven = new RavenConstructor();

[dcramer]

Is parse cloud an actual browser runtime or is it node?

[yingliangzhang]

@dcramer Ah It's node. Thanks for pointing that out.

[dcramer]

@yingliangzhang np -- raven-node should work, but if it doesnt feel free to open a ticket there

[LewisJEllis]

It's not quite exactly node according to this:

Most but not all Cloud Code can be directly ported to node.js. Parse Cloud Code is based on the V8 JavaScript engine, but it does not run node.js. In particular, Cloud Code environments are loaded and unloaded individually for each request, while node.js services typically serve multiple requests at a time.

but nonetheless window definitely won't be a thing, so raven-js won't work. You could try raven-node, but I doubt that will work; Parse cloud code has its own methods for sending requests according to their docs and this blog post. They do note that "You can use your favorite npm module to make HTTP requests, such as request", but I'm not sure what that means regarding the node-native http/https modules.

I haven't used Parse cloud code before, so for all I know it'll work with raven-node out of the box, but I'm guessing that this will at least require some trickery to make the node http/https modules available to raven-node, and may need a custom client using Parse's http API.

[yingliangzhang]

Thanks @LewisJEllis for explaining. I'm quite new to Parse Cloud as well and I've never used raven. I'll try raven-node and see how it goes.