# Can't import view
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-import-view/50402
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [September 20, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-import-view/50402 "2016-09-20T18:27:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@sevenmaxis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sevenmaxis)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-import-view/50402/1 "2016-09-20T18:27:19Z")
Something weird happening with importing modules. Here’s a snippet from my plugin
```
import PostModel from 'discourse/models/post';
import { withPluginApi } from 'discourse/lib/plugin-api';
import { slot, loadGoogle } from '../lib/gpt';
import TopicView from 'discourse/views/topic';
```
The first three imports work well, but the last one doesn’t work and i don’t know how to figure out why.
The error: `Uncaught ReferenceError: TopicView is not defined`
Do you have any idea why importing `TopicView` doesn’t work?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2016, 7:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-import-view/50402/2 "2016-09-20T19:39:33Z")
`class TopicView` is in `./lib/topic_view.rb` , so
maybe try:
```
import TopicView from 'discourse/lib/topic_view';
```
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### Author:  [@sevenmaxis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sevenmaxis)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2016, 7:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-import-view/50402/3 "2016-09-20T19:45:45Z")
No, it’s a javascript part of Discourse, no ruby at all. In repo it has full path:
`app/assets/javascripts/discourse/views/topic.js.es6`
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-import-view/50402/4 "2016-09-20T19:46:16Z")
Shows what I know. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-import-view/50402/5 "2016-09-20T20:17:13Z")
I admit I’m no expert here.
But it seems odd to me that
`/models/post.js.es6` has `export default Post;`
while
`/views/topic.js.es6` has `export default TopicView;`
My guess is that the line should be
`import Topic from 'discourse/views/topic';`
in the assumption that topic is exporting TopicView as Topic
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### Author:  [@sevenmaxis](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sevenmaxis)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-import-view/50402/6 "2016-09-20T20:58:53Z")
No difference.
I found another weirdo, here’s bigger snippet:
```
import PostModel from 'discourse/models/post';
import { withPluginApi } from 'discourse/lib/plugin-api';
import { slot, loadGoogle } from '../lib/gpt';
import TopicView from 'discourse/views/topic';
// here TopicView is defined
export default {
name: 'initialize-ad-plugin',
initialize(container) {
PostModel.reopen({
...
})
...
// but here TopicView is not defined
...
}
}
```
TopicView is accessible out of anonymous object, but not inside it. But i don’t understand why there’s no problem with PostModel?
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### Author:  [@Clement\_Decou](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Clement_Decou)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2017, 10:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-import-view/50402/7 "2017-02-16T10:52:39Z")
The directory views doesn’t exist in discourse 1.8 so i don’t find the class TopicView…
Does the TopicView class still exist in js ?