"ReferenceError: require is not defined" on android

[sean012]

Hello everyone.
I’m newbie here to obsidian and javascript.
What I am trying to is importing my own functions into the view.js files so that dv.view can work properly.
I’m using ‘require’ and it work fine on PC, but when I switch to android it just not working and said
“ReferenceError: require is not defined.”

I found that years ago someone had this exact same problem but there was no conclusion.

Help - Reference Error: Can't find variable: require on ios

Hello I am having an error on mobile when I try displaying a view that uses a .js file where my common utility functions are defined. I have used the accepted answer in this post DataviewJs - Code reuse: common place for scripts - Basement - Obsidian Forum for reusing my common utility functions in other views. What I am trying to achieve is: Being able to import the common utility functions inside the view.js files in a way that it also works on mobile. I am using dataviewjs blocks in my tem…

Here is my code

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After searching I found the CustomJS plugin and it work!!

But when looking into the code, I still can’t figure out the reason why I can’t use ‘require’ and how to fix my original code by myself (for learning javascript and obsidian purpose).
Somebody said that this may cause by differnet framwork between desktop and mobile, in other word Electron and Capacitor?

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I’m confuse now so if anyone can explain this to me, I’d appreciate it!
Thank you!