Uncaught TypeError: URL is not a constructor using WHATWG URL object support for electron

Question

I am trying to read a file using WHATWG URL object support here

and I am getting this error: Uncaught TypeError: URL is not a constructor

here is my code:

Answer 1

Are you using Node 6 instead of Node 8?

Node 6

const url = require('url');
const myUrl = url.parse('http://example.com');
const myUrlString = url.format(myUrl);

https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v6.x/docs/api/url.html#url_url

Node 8

const { URL } = require('url');
const myUrl = new URL('http://example.com');
const myUrlString = myUrl.toString();

https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v8.x/docs/api/url.html#url_url