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IMO, it's the best thing to happen to Node. It (kinda) unifies browser and server syntax, and across competing server-side JS frameworks (Node, Deno, Bun). Comm

by jeswin 2y ago

IMO, it's the best thing to happen to Node. It (kinda) unifies browser and server syntax, and across competing server-side JS frameworks (Node, Deno, Bun). CommonJS was clearly a NodeJS thing. We embraced ESM a couple of years back. It was a bit harder earlier on; for example our test frameworks didn't support mocking ESM code well enough. But now there's hardly anything to complain about. There's no going back really - we wouldn't want to.

123yawaworht456 2y ago
>IMO, it's the best thing to happen to Node. It (kinda) unifies browser and server syntax, and across competing server-side JS frameworks (Node, Deno, Bun). CommonJS was clearly a NodeJS thing. what the fuck was the point of unifying this particular thing at such a great PITA cost, when obviously none of node APIs work in the browser? should things like Buffer be removed too? the browser only has Uint8Array, after all.