any plan to publish es module ?

[wighawag]

Getting issues with modern tooling that expect es modules
Not sure yet what is the exact issue but feel like there is no reason why drand-client could not publish es-module, which brings further davantage like proper dead code elimination, etc...

[CluEleSsUK]

I was actually banging my head against the wall on a different lib today wrt esmodules.
The crux is that esm can handle commonjs, but commonjs can't handle esm. Is there a specific tool you're having problems with?
I agree that esm is superior in every other way, but it's a jimmie rustler that support is still quite rubbish. We could possibly just compile everything to .mjs which should work on any reasonable node version?

[wighawag]

Yes, you could compile to both and set the correct export

The issue I have is with cloudflare worker vitest integration. I have this error : cloudflare/workers-sdk#5367 but with tlock-js / drand-client

Error: Module cannot be synchronously required while it is being instantiated or evaluated. This error typically means that a CommonJS or NodeJS-Compat type module has a circular dependency on itself, and that a synchronous require() is being called while the module is being loaded.
 ❯ home/wighawag/dev/github.com/wighawag/fuzd/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/drand-client/http-caching-chain.js?mf_vitest_no_cjs_esm_shim:4:17
 ❯ home/wighawag/dev/github.com/wighawag/fuzd/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/drand-client/index.js?mf_vitest_no_cjs_esm_shim:7:46
 ❯ home/wighawag/dev/github.com/wighawag/fuzd/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/tlock-js/index.js?mf_vitest_no_cjs_esm_shim:4:24

[wighawag]

@CluEleSsUK I made a reproduction repo : https://github.com/bug-reproduction/tlock-js-cf-worker-vitest

to see the bug

pnpm i
pnpm test

but it works when running the worker itself:

pnpm dev
# navigate to http://localhost:8787/roundAt/1729873909000

[wighawag]

The same repo work with these modif:

drand-client: generate both cjs and esm: #87

tlock-js: generate both cjs and esm: drand/tlock-js#46

[wighawag]

So the 2 PR works quite well. The only thing I noticed in that when using the es module in node, it output a performance warning because of not having {"type":" module"}

Ideally the project would have "type": "module" in package.json and tsconfig set to have "moduleResolution": "NodeNext" but that cause issue with your code (you also need to use .js extension for relative import)

The best in the future might be generate 2 packages: one esm and one cjs from the same code

But for now these 2 PR are probably better than what is there.

[wighawag]

After testing in more scenarios, the solution proposed in my PR is still problematic

So I think the best way forward is to update the code to modern output and have a cjs build too