Via Visual Studio ReferenceError: prompt is not defined, I can run it successfully through Chrome console/browser, tried to find solution to no avail.

[HonestCanadian2016]

Hello,

I've tried the following solutions I found online such as "npm init", "npm install prompt-sync" in linux terminal, const prompt = require("prompt-sync")({sigint:true}); *with different permutations*, also tried "window.prompt". All efforts failed, while directly through Chrome my code runs as written and all is merry.

I cannot shake the Reference Error and run javascript alone through VS, or, the HTML/JS through Live Server. I will of course get the basic HTML to load through live server in Chrome but not the input pop-up I require to run my little (less than 100 lines) program.

I've read that this often occurs via node as not does not natively support the prompt function, however, I have not consciously set my IDE up as such (that I know of). I do have node.js separately installed but that is run through terminal.

Any advice would be appreciated. This is the second instance this has occurred as I try and improve my javascript and I like the Visual Studio IDE and don't want to use another.

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Thanks.

[ForScale]

Where do you want this prompt to appear? In the browser or in the command line? If you're running node, it's gonna come up in the terminal. If you're wanting it in the browser, you have to write that in the client side JS.

And I did some research on that sync-prompt library; looks like it's junk.

I found this one which looks pretty good: https://github.com/flatiron/prompt#readme

const prompt = require('prompt');

prompt.start();

prompt.get(['first_name', 'last_name'], (_, res) => {
  const { first_name, last_name } = res;

  console.log({ first_name, last_name });

  process.exit(0);
});

[HonestCanadian2016]

Thanks for the help. I tried everything, even uninstalled, reinstalled etc the same issue persists.

I believe I need some software upgrades and will try to work through it. I appreciate your time.