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SSR client side error "window is not defined"

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
express, react
Domain
full-stack

Research direction

Reproduce the reported SSR React + Express setup and inspect bootstrap-switch-button-react.js at the reported failure location. Confirm that server rendering no longer raises the "window is not defined" error while the client-side switch continues to work.

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Description

I try to use this module with SSR React + Express inside a Form with Bootstrap-react module, but it failed with ReferenceError: window is not defined from bootstrap-switch-button-react.js:1:9869

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CSS
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