How to get hooks socketio etc from feathers object

[osenvosem]

According the documentation hooks or restshould be available on feathers object, but there is no any. I'm using it with webpack:

const feathers = require('feathers/client'); or just ('feathers');

feathers.rest === undefined
feathers.hooks === undefined

What am I doing wrong?

[daffl]

You are using feathers/client this is the feathers-client module (const feathers = require('feathers-client')). As the Readme says:

While Feathers and its modules can be used on the client with an NPM compatible module loader like Browserify, Webpack or StealJS, feathers-client consolidates a standard set of client plugins into a single distributable that can be used standalone in the browser or with other module loaders (like RequireJS) that don't support NPM.

This means you should only use it if you don't use a module loader that supports NPM.

[osenvosem]

@daffl so with webpack I suppose to import client modules separately and can't use feathers-client module? like so:

const feathers = require('feathers/client');
const rest = require('feathers-rest/client');
const auth = require('feathers-authentication/client');
etc...

It seems a little confusing.

[daffl]

Yes, that's how it is documented in https://docs.feathersjs.com/clients/feathers.html#usage-in-nodejs-and-client-module-loaders

[daffl]

You can still use the feathers-client module if you want. Just use const feathers = require('feathers-client'). You might just end up including things you don't use that way.

[osenvosem]

@daffl thank you for the answers.
One more thing: I got an error in browser every time I am trying to configure rest:

Uncaught TypeError: fn.call is not a function(…)

It leads here:

The code:

const feathers = require('feathers/client');
const rest = require('feathers-rest/client');
const hooks = require('feathers-hooks');


const client = feathers()
  .configure(hooks())
  .configure(rest());

[daffl]

Probably a Webpack configuration issue somewhere. It worked when I tried it.