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The Global Object

The global object in Node or in the browser.

How it works

Note that the only reliable way to get the global object is:

Function('return this')();

but it breaks the Chrome App Content Security Policy, see:

https://github.com/paulmillr/es6-shim/issues/301

This module checks to see if there is self, window or global variable and returns the first one that has a reference to itself with the same name, as a real global object would, with some additional checks.

This is important to not return a wrong object if there is a global variable called self or window defined. This module does the following checks:

makes sure that the global object has a circular reference to itself
makes sure that the global object has own property Object equal to global Object

Hopefully it will no longer be needed when the TC39 global proposal is implemented:

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-global

Issues

For any bug reports or feature requests please post an issue on GitHub.

Author

Rafał Pocztarski

License

MIT License (Expat). See LICENSE.md for details.