XMLHttpRequest is not defined in Netlify Functions

[pankajpatel]

Issue Summary

XMLHttpRequest is not defined in Netlify Functions

To Reproduce

1. Try to fetch content via Content API JS SDK in netlify function

I think @tryghost/content-api uses axios to send AJAX requests. Axios depends heavily on XMLHttpRequest for its functioning.

Possible alternatives can be https://github.com/developit/redaxios

Technical details:

• Ghost Version: 3.41.4
• Node Version: 12.20.1
• Browser/OS: Irrelevant
• Database: mysql

[nrdcp]

Looks like the issue is linked to browser: true rollup config option. This will result in axios dependency to be built based on assumption it is used in the browser only - with xhr always used as the adaptor

[gaetandezeiraud]

I have the same issue with ElectronJS. On the main (nodejs) thread.
And axios is a dependency of the project.

Any idea?

[pankajpatel]

You can maybe alias the axios module imports to redaxios in your bundler.

For my project, I changed the way I was using the content API to only run on the browser.

[SupremeTechnopriest]

Why Axios?! Its such a horrible abstraction. Please, just use fetch. Its 2024.