window is not defined issue

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Steps to reproduce

When you use it in angular 5 universal server side rendering project.
window exist only on browser side, we got "window is not defined" issue when factory($, window, document) is called (build/js/intlTelInput.js file at line 11)

Expected behaviour

check if 'window' exists before use it

Actual behaviour

window is not defined Exception is thrown when window does not exist

Initialisation options

List any options you're using e.g. utilsScript or preferredCountries

[jackocnr]

Hmm interesting! I would be open to a pull request to check if window exists before attempting to use it, and if not, then it immediately sets windowLoaded to true. I just checked and we reference window quite a few times in the code, but I suppose only the initialisation path is relevant for server side rendering.

[yacineblr]

Do you have any news?

[jackocnr]

No update yet I'm afraid. But a quick search revealed this thread on the angular universal repo: angular/universal#830 which suggests that when you have a problem with a module trying to access window - that you either (A) only import that module in main.ts (which I'm guessing means it wont be run on the server side?), or (B) define global['window'] on your backend. So I'm not convinced we actually need to do anything about this in the intl-tel-input plugin code. What are your thoughts?

I have never used Angular, or Angular Universal, but I'm interested to know: do you actually want to run this plugin code on the server side? And if so, why?

[jackocnr]

Closing due to inactivity