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Component fails to import on server side rendering

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Assessment

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

Research direction

Start by reproducing the component import in a server-side-rendering React environment and inspect where the window is not defined error originates. Done means the library imports and renders on the server without requiring window.

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Description

I'm working on a project using server side rendering React and this library throws an error on my server side:

ReferenceError: window is not defined

Dominant language
CSS
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Forks
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