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Has anyone used React to develop a custom visual? I'm running into various problems in getting started. Namely, I'm gettting typescript errors on the typings for react and react-dom as well as not ge...
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    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    I got this workaround from David Tittsworth...Thanks! 

     

    Add a global.js file with contents:

    var React = window.React;

    var ReactDOM = window.ReactDOM;

     

    and then in pbiviz.json, add a reference to the global.js file in externalJS at the bottom.

     

    This works! 

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v-viig
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9 years ago

Anonymous

 

Power BI creates a copy of the window object in order to isolate custom visual's libraries from its own.

D3 works well due to special logic that binds d3 to the global context.

 

I suppose that we will get rid of isolation to simplify using external libraries.

 

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

 

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

[email protected]

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Anonymous
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9 years ago

I got this workaround from David Tittsworth...Thanks! 

 

Add a global.js file with contents:

var React = window.React;

var ReactDOM = window.ReactDOM;

 

and then in pbiviz.json, add a reference to the global.js file in externalJS at the bottom.

 

This works!