Angular Universal: SSR - window is not defined

[nncl]

Hello,

I'm using ngx-sortablejs in my application, and works as expected, the only problem is that this same application uses Angular Universal to server side rendering, and the following error is returned from the server:

ReferenceError: window is not defined
    at new Sortable (/var/www/app/dist/server/main.js:121650:73)
    at Function.Sortable.create (/var/www/app/dist/server/main.js:123098:12)
    at Timeout.<anonymous> (/var/www/app/dist/server/main.js:135544:87)
    at ZoneDelegate.invokeTask (/var/www/app/dist/server.js:578:31)
    at Zone.runTask (/var/www/app/dist/server.js:350:47)
    at ZoneTask.invokeTask (/var/www/app/dist/server.js:653:34)
    at Timeout.ZoneTask.invoke (/var/www/app/dist/server.js:642:48)
    at Timeout.timer [as _onTimeout] (/var/www/app/dist/server.js:2387:29)
    at listOnTimeout (internal/timers.js:531:17)
    at processTimers (internal/timers.js:475:7)

Is there anything to do in order to avoid its load on the server side? Or is it something that the original library should - maybe - do?

By now I'm handling this problem with isPlatformBrowser and not rendering it through *ngIf, but it doesn't look nice.

Thanks for your great work.

[lares83]

Have the same issue. any update about this bug? it used to works fine

[carbonhe]

@nncl https://github.com/angular/universal/issues/1523#issuecomment-600320144 please check this, I think it's helpful.