Bug: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'split') after signing up to OpenSauced

[nickytonline]

A user reported after signup a client-side crash.

It looks like a string is undefined somewhere. Looking at our codebase, it could be either trying to split a GitHub user's interests or it's a repo that is undefined trying to be split on /. I'm leaning more towards the GitHub interests being the issue without knowing exactly where this happened, but it is post signup.

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[jpmcb]

Mentioning this here as well:

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Interests can definitely be EMPTY in the database which should get surfaced in the v2/users/{username} endpoint as "interests": "". So, this shouldn't be undefined.

Two questions:

• Can we replicate this reliably with new test users?
• Surprised this wasn't caught by Sentry since it throws in the client. Worth investigating why that might have been.

[nickytonline]

As @jpmcb mentioned, odd that this wasn't caught by Sentry. We'lll need to see if this can be reproduced.