Roles.createRole is not a function (alanning:[email protected])

[carlosalvidrez]

Any hints on why this error might be happening?
Using Meteor 3.0-rc1

error on boot.js TypeError: Roles.createRole is not a function

This is the code, a simple import and then the use of the .createRole method.

import { Roles } from 'meteor/alanning:roles';
Meteor.startup(function(){
	// Define roles
	Roles.createRole('user', {unlessExists: true});

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[alanning]

@carlosalvidrez I would guess the example code you included was being run server-side?

In the "Meteor 3 compatible" version 4.x of alanning:roles, the synchronous versions of the functions are only available client-side. So client-side, you would still use createRole but server-side the function is now named createRoleAsync:

https://github.com/Meteor-Community-Packages/meteor-roles/blob/v4.0.0-alpha.3/roles/roles_common_async.js#L83

[carlosalvidrez]

Ah, thank you so much, will try this right away!

[carlosalvidrez]

Yep, all set, thanks again @alanning !