[HOLD for payment 2024-06-05] Web - Chat - Console error shows up when selecting a phone number mention

[izarutskaya]

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Version Number: 1.4.63-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Issue reported by: Applause-Internal team

Action Performed:

1. Go to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Go to chat.
3. Type @.
4. Select a phone contact from the list.

Expected Result:

No console error will show up.

Actual Result:

Console error shows up.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6453297_1713425289194.console_error_phone.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @sonialiap

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @pecanoro (DeployBlockerCash), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @sonialiap (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

[github-actions]

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[izarutskaya]

@sonialiap I haven't added the External label as I wasn't 100% sure about this issue. Please take a look and add the label if you agree it's a bug and can be handled by external contributors.

[izarutskaya]

We think this issue might be related to the #vip-vsb.

[pecanoro]

I can reproduce it, it's failing to add the mention styling because of the error: