aleph.js VS tsc-esm-fix

Check aleph if you want to use react with deno. But I'd suggest sticking with Node.js and Vite as you'll get less surprises.

Here's another thing: if you want to grow from this exact setup, use deno. It has support for import maps and don't require a bundler or a separate compilation step for typescript

https://deno.land/[email protected]/basics/import_maps

Maybe add aleph too (which is similar to nextjs)

https://alephjs.org/

Deno won't require nearly as much tooling as nodejs, but it still has tooling for the cases you need it.

There’s also https://alephjs.org, never used but pops up when you search for "deno react" so I assume is similar to nextjs.

Aleph.js is a full-stack framework in Deno, used as an alternative to Next.js. Aleph.js offers features like ES module imports, file-system routing, SSR & SSG, and HMR with a fast refresh.

Probably because it compiles them to a pre-standard ES5-compatible implementation based on good ol' `Foo.prototype`. And since they've already handled them one way, they can't become spec-compliant without breaking backwards compatibility.

The other place where this shines through particularly egregiously is the support of ESM static import/export. Everybody's build tools been compiling that back down to CJS so hard that Node.js 16+ introduced intentional incompatibilities between CJS and ESM modes just to get people to finally switch to the standards-compliant module system. So you end up in a situation where the library is written in TypeScript with ESM syntax but the only available browser build is a CJS blob which completely defeats the main touted benefit of static imports/exports, namely dead code elimination...

So you decide what the hell, let's switch TSC to ESM and moduleResolution node16, and end up having to use something like https://github.com/antongolub/tsc-esm-fix because the only allowed fix for TSC doing the wrong thing is at the completely wrong level - https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/esm-node.html - if you don't see what's wrong with that, you're one of today's lucky 10000...