From 3d0590de870db5a9c56519f70a48ac2c75e08eee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Quincy Morgan <2046746+quincylvania@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 10:19:40 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Properly instantiate context.connection before init

---
 modules/core/context.js | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/modules/core/context.js b/modules/core/context.js
index 8b59144be..fe0564010 100644
--- a/modules/core/context.js
+++ b/modules/core/context.js
@@ -88,7 +88,9 @@ export function coreContext() {
 
 
   /* Straight accessors. Avoid using these if you can. */
-  let _connection;
+  // Instantiate the connection here because it doesn't require passing in
+  // `context` and it's needed for pre-init calls like `preauth`
+  let _connection = services.osm;
   let _history;
   let _validator;
   let _uploader;
@@ -529,8 +531,6 @@ export function coreContext() {
       _photos = rendererPhotos(context);
 
       _ui = uiInit(context);
-
-      _connection = services.osm;
     }
 
     // Set up objects that might need to access properties of `context`. The order