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"Building your first Solid app" example CodeSandbox not working
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Description
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I searched "CodeSandbox" in this repository issues. There was none
Describe the bug
On this page, the CodeSandbox example for the example app doesn't work with error message: "SyntaxError / Identified 'process' has already been declared" (or "Cannot declare a const variable twice: 'process'." on Safari)
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Go to https://solidproject.org/developers/tutorials/first-app
- Scroll down a bit, and click "Edit on CodeSandbox"
- Wait for like 5 seconds
- Boom
- Even if I open the page on a new tab as instructed, I see this error. I guess the instruction there isn't related to this issue.
Expected behavior
There should be no error message popping up
Screenshots

Desktop:
(I don't think this error message is linked with a specific platform)
- OS: macOS 13.1
- Browser: Brave, Chrome, Safari
- Version
- Brave:
1.47.171 Chromium: 109.0.5414.87 (Official Build) (arm64) - Chrome:
108.0.5359.124 (Official Build) (arm64) - Safari:
Version 16.2 (18614.3.7.1.5)
- Brave:
Additional context
Add any other context about the problem here.
I'm new to Solid community
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Open the “Building your first Solid app” tutorial and follow its “Edit on CodeSandbox” link. Inspect the CodeSandbox project at _posts/developers/apps/inrupt-tutorial/codesandbox/, starting with index.js, and reproduce the duplicate process declaration in the listed browsers. Done means the example opens without that syntax error.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100