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ES module conversion PoC #1498

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ES module conversion PoC #1498

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@43081j 43081j commented Jan 20, 2023

I'm sure there's plenty of other things to take into account, tests to add (such that we test both CJS/ESM equally) and maybe some problems in this I missed - however, here's a PoC of converting the codebase to ESM.

As the commit says, it uses esbuild under the hood to create two bundled entrypoints:

  • chai.js - ESM
  • chai.cjs - CommonJS

Two because there are still dependencies written in CommonJS, which invalidates the ESM-only tree (meaning you wouldn't be able to use it natively in a browser). Bundling them means we can leave it up to esbuild to figure the dependencies out and ship pure ESM.

If you ever want this or feel like picking it up, let me know, i can probably find a little time to pair on it some way.

The diff's a little funky because I first caught up from 4.x.x into my 5.x.x-based branch, while the current 5.x.x branch is actually out of date (and I fixed the conflicts there).

Also, it'd probably break the use function externally (haven't tried it). has no use anymore internally but who knows what third party packages are depending on it. tried to imitate it with some mock exports object but haven't really tested it.

i have tested it with a few chai plugins to see if use works, and all seems fine.

lnewson and others added 23 commits March 3, 2021 18:16
The changes made in chaijs#1334 incorrectly used an arrow function and as this isn't supported on IE 11 it causes a SyntaxError to be thrown when loading chai.
Bumps [codecov](https://github.com/codecov/codecov-node) from 3.1.0 to 3.7.1.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/codecov/codecov-node/releases)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/codecov/codecov-node/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)
- [Commits](codecov/codecov-node@v3.1.0...v3.7.1)

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* 4.x.x: Fix link to commit logs on GitHub

As there is no `master` branch, the link returned a 404.

* Update History.md

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Bumps [socket.io-parser](https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-parser) from 4.0.4 to 4.0.5.
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- [Changelog](https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-parser/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)
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previously it was incorrectly labeled as `objDisplay(obj: object): void` in `@types/chai`.
This moves all of the sources to be ES modules rather than CommonJS.

In order to produce the entrypoints, we use esbuild as a bundler (and as
a transpiler in a way).

Due to the fact that some dependencies are written in CommonJS, we
actually use esbuild to create _two_ bundles: a CommonJS bundle, and an
ES module bundle.

Otherwise, someone importing the raw source would inevitably end up
trying to import a CommonJS module somewhere down the tree, which would
not work in browsers natively.
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43081j commented Feb 6, 2023

@keithamus did you ever get chance to take a peek at this? would be good to get some thoughts

giving chai a real es module would be so useful

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Thanks for the reminder! I’ll give this a closer look tomorrow ❤️

@keithamus keithamus marked this pull request as ready for review February 7, 2023 14:40
@keithamus keithamus requested a review from a team as a code owner February 7, 2023 14:40
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