DB being created. Still getting an exception.

src/db/index.ts

@@ -17,8 +17,12 @@ export type Dexie<T extends unknown = DexieTables> = BaseDexie & T;
 export const db = new BaseDexie("kickStarter") as Dexie;
 const schema = Object.assign({}, accountsSchema);
 
+/**
+ * Needed to enable a special webpack setting to allow *await* below:
+ *   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72474803/error-the-top-level-await-experiment-is-not-enabled-set-experiments-toplevelaw
+ */
 // if db already made, skip creation
-BaseDexie.exists("kickStarter").then(function (exists) {
+const exists = await BaseDexie.exists("kickStarter");
 if (exists == false) {
   // create password and place password in localStorage
   const secret =
@@ -31,4 +35,3 @@ BaseDexie.exists("kickStarter").then(function (exists) {
   encrypted(db, { secretKey: secret });
   db.version(1).stores(schema);
 }
-});

vue.config.js

@@ -3,5 +3,8 @@ module.exports = defineConfig({
   transpileDependencies: true,
   configureWebpack: {
     devtool: "source-map",
+    experiments: {
+      topLevelAwait: true,
+    }
   },
 });