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:

var fs = require("fs");                                       const { URL } = require('url');  var dbPath = 'file://192.168.5.2/db/db.sqlite';  const fileUrl = new URL(dbPath);

Answer 1

I faced the same issue, then I looked into the url module and found a solution

For Node V6 use,

const URL = require('url').Url; 

or

const { Url } = require('url');  

If you look into the module, it exports 5 methods one of which is Url, so if you need to access Url, you can use either of the two methods