Why does using the .load special command in NodeJS v18 result in an infinite loop of loading the first line of the specified file? – Ubuntu

I am also going through the Learn Enough to be Dangerous courses and I ran into exactly the same problem.

As far as I can tell it has something to do with the node version since I was also in Node v18.13.0. I also tried 19.6.1 but the same thing happened.

I decided to go backward and attempted to use 14.20.0 and low and behold I was able to run the palindrome.js file in a repl with node. I haven’t tested versions in between 14.20.0 and 18.13.0, so im not sure which version this started happening with.

Update—
I did some trial and error and I found that the issue starts specifically with 18.13.0. 18.12.1 runs the palindrome.js file just fine.

For anyone curious this is what is in the palindrome.js file:

// Reverses a string.
function reverse(string){
    return Array.from(string).reverse().join("");
}

// Defines a Phrase Object.
function Phrase(content){
    this.content = content;

    // Returns true for a palindrome, false otherwise.
    this.palindrome = function palindrome(){
        let processedContent = this.content.toLowerCase();
        return processedContent === reverse(processedContent);
    }

    // makes the phrase louder.
    this.louder = function(){
        return this.content.toUpperCase();
    }
}