Error "export 'version' was not found in 'vue'

[stuartjnelson]

Error "export 'version' was not found in 'vue'

[AustinGil]

Unfortunately, the solution above does not work. Back to the drawing board. I'd like to avoid something withing the component, but may end up with your solution.

[AustinGil]

Hey @stuartjnelson, thanks for reporting this. It's actually a known issue. Im working on supporting both Vue 2 and Vue 3. There are only some minor changes, but in order to address them, I need to detect which version of Vue is running. The good news is that this won't negatively affect anything. The bad news is I dont know of a better way to detect what version is running.

[stuartjnelson]

Hey @AustinGil,

Thanks for quick reply and sorry if this was already reported. Do I had a play around (by this I mean hacking Vuetensils from inside my node_modules directory). I was able to check if it was Vue 2 by doing the following;

const isVue3 = this.render  === 'function' || false

This only worked if it was done inside the exported object not where you have it nicely at the top. I wonder if this would cause issues if you use Composition API plugin with Vue 2...

[AustinGil]

Oh that's a pretty clever approach. I was also considering modifying the code so its more like

import * as namedExports from 'vue'

const isVue3 = namedExports && namedExports.version && namedExports.version.startsWith('3')

It's a bit more verbose, but I think that should work. I just wonder if it would impact the bundle size differently.

[stuartjnelson]

I feel it not a bad verbose though but like you said for this check you wouldn't want to affect bundle size. Let me know if I can help with this

[AustinGil]

Ended up just adopting vue-demi as it's the recommended solution from the core team. I didnt want to add an external dependency, but fixing this issue was required for Vite support