My production stopped out of nowhere with error Uncaught TypeError: Cannot assign to read only property 'copy' of object '[object Object]' about ng-hcaptcha

[hiagodotme]

After a lot of struggle, I found the cause of the problem.

In my Angular project, there is a file src/prototypes.ts this file was created by a developer two years ago to facilitate copying Angular objects without reference.

The content is exactly this:

export const prototypes = (): void => {
     Object.defineProperty(Object.prototype, 'copy', {
         value: function (): any {
             const obj = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(this));
             return obj;
         },
     });
};

Luckily for me, only one place in the application used this, so I refactored and deleted the contents of prototypes.ts.

I believe that HCaptcha made some recent update that conflicted with this code in the core of my Angular project.

[hiagodotme]

I'll leave it open, maybe other people might be going through this.