Run on Node about botframework-directlinejs

[billba]

Any reason to think it doesn't? I have heard from folks who have it running on servers.

I tried to use it on Node and it goes only up-to 'Connecting'. Debugging showed that it throws

Error: XMLHttpRequest is not supported by your browser
    at getXMLHttpRequest (..\node_modules\rxjs\observable\dom\AjaxObservable.js:45:19)
    at Object.createXHR (..\node_modules\rxjs\observable\dom\AjaxObservable.js:93:71)
    at Object.tryCatcher (..\node_modules\rxjs\util\tryCatch.js:6:31)
    at AjaxSubscriber.send (..\node_modules\rxjs\observable\dom\AjaxObservable.js:191:50)
    at new AjaxSubscriber (..\node_modules\rxjs\observable\dom\AjaxObservable.js:180:14)
    at AjaxObservable._subscribe (..\node_modules\rxjs\observable\dom\AjaxObservable.js:115:16)
    at AjaxObservable.Observable._trySubscribe (..\node_modules\rxjs\Observable.js:57:25)
    at AjaxObservable.Observable.subscribe (..\node_modules\rxjs\Observable.js:45:27)
    at MapOperator.call (..\node_modules\rxjs\operator\map.js:54:23)
    at Observable.subscribe (..\node_modules\rxjs\Observable.js:42:22)

The hack from rjxs worked but I wonder if there is an out-of-box way?

global.XMLHttpRequest = require("xhr2");

[billba]

Nope, sounds like you've found a good working solution. Would love a PR to the README to help others with this problem.

[poul-kg]

@sunseaandpalms Hi, can you explain how you applied rxjs fix you mentioned? Do you have working DirectLine under NodeJS?

[poul-kg]

I've added
global.XMLHttpRequest = require("xhr2");
to the top of my main index.js file, but still DirectLine connection do not work

[poul-kg]

Ok, looks like adding global.XMLHttpRequest = require("xhr2"); to the top of the main .js file, can solve this issue. I wasn't sending any messages, that's why connection status was not updating.

[danmarshall]

Would be good to know if the xhr2 trick still functions back in DOM-land. Perhaps then we can have it in master?

[billba]

I'd hate to do that, because that would make the client build bigger.