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Why is PouchDB.find() not a function?

I can't get the pouchdb-find plugin to work. The closest I can get is a 'find is not a function' exception.

  • Platform: Windows Firefox and Android Chrome 75.03770.101
  • webpack: ^4.30.0
  • pouchdb: ^7.1.1,
  • pouchdb-find: ^7.1.1

I tried the approach from here, but it doesn't help

I also tried to use pouchdb-find with pouchdb-browser.

Below is the problematic code that I have currently. The PouchDB module itself won't work without adding the .default at the end of the require. Note that I did already populate a database with data prior to attempting to use .find().

// npm install --save pouchdb
// npm install --save pouchdb-find

const PouchDB = require('pouchdb').default;
PouchDB.plugin(require('pouchdb-find'));

const db = new PouchDB(dbName);    
db.find({
    limit: 100
});

I'm open to any solution that allows me to use the pouchdb-find plugin.

Solution

  • The solution was to mimic the way I was requiring PouchDB. (Also, the object passed to find() creates an error because it's supposed to have a selector, but that's not really relevant to the question's topic)

    PouchDB.plugin(require('pouchdb-find').default);