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[Bundler] BN.red is undefined

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, react
Domain
build-system, security

Research direction

Reproduce computeSecret in a browser front end created with create-react-app and inspect how BN is included in the bundle. Done means the browser build bundles BN correctly and computeSecret no longer throws that BN.red error.

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Description

For some reason,computeSecret is throwing error saying cannot read 'red' of undefined. This seems to indicate that BN was not bundled properly.

Environment: browser.

Front-end was created using create-react-app

Dominant language
JavaScript
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Forks
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