ReferenceError: _h is not defined

[ra100]

After updating to vue 2.1.6 I'm getting error ReferenceError: _h is not defined and I can not use icon at all.

[anlek]

@ra100 any luck finding a work around?

[ra100]

@anlek I am not exactly sure, how I made it work
this is who I'm initializing vue:

new Vue({
  el: '#shoutbox-widget',
  template: '<App/>',
  components: { App }
})

then in component just:

import icon from 'vue-icons'

you can find it here:
https://github.com/ra100/shoutbox-widget/blob/master/src/main.js
https://github.com/ra100/shoutbox-widget/blob/master/src/components/ShMessageTwitter.vue
webpack config: https://github.com/ra100/shoutbox-widget/blob/master/build/webpack.base.conf.js

[kylewelsby]

I currently have this same issue too.. I'm trying to resolve this.

[kylewelsby]

I managed to find a solution. The codebase was using a private API that changed in a recent version of Vue Template Compiler

source: vuejs/vue#4536 (comment)

[mlnmln]

Downgrading vue and vue-template-compiler to 2.1.4 temporarily fixed the issue for me. Can we expect @kylewelsby pr/fix upstream any time soon?

[zxc23]

I'm suffering from this issue as well. Incredibly, when not using vue-icons, I get a similar error when using Vue 2.1.4 or earlier (SimulatedGREG/electron-vue#96), so I can't even go back to that to make vue-icons work.

What's the step by step process to get one of the PRs above to work with a project? I used npm install kylewelsby/vue-icons --save-dev, then realised it had to be built. In the node_modules/vue-icons folder I used npm install and npm install -g npm-run, and invoked a few of the npm build scripts, but things didn't seem to work out.

[kylewelsby]

Hey @zxc23 because vue-icons is written in coffee script and requires pre-compiling.

I have made a compiled version and it can be installed as follows.

npm install kylewelsby/vue-icons#v2.0.1a

This will have to be used until the current maintainer accepts the pull request and pushes a compiled version to npmjs.org

[zxc23]

Thanks a heap!

BTW there's a backslash in that link: npm install https://github.com/kylewelsby/vue-icons#v2.0.1a or npm install kylewelsby/vue-icons#v2.0.1a

[kylewelsby]

thanks for pointing that out @zxc23 I have corrected the comment for people searching for the fix.

[kylewelsby]

@paulpflug are you ok to merge this any time soon?