Oh CommonJS! Why are you mESMing with me?! Reasons to ditch CommonJS

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  1. vitest

    Next generation testing framework powered by Vite.

    If your code breaks, you may have legacy issues. Consider using different tooling or packages. For example, you can migrate from Jest to vitest or from ExpressJS to h3. The syntax remains the same; the only difference is the import statement.

  2. SurveyJS

    JavaScript Form Builder with No-Code UI & Built-In JSON Schema Editor. Add the SurveyJS white-label form builder to your JavaScript app (React/Angular/Vue3). Build complex JSON forms without coding. Fully customizable, works with any backend, perfect for data-heavy apps. Learn more.

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  3. h3

    ⚡️ Minimal H(TTP) framework built for high performance and portability (by h3js)

    If your code breaks, you may have legacy issues. Consider using different tooling or packages. For example, you can migrate from Jest to vitest or from ExpressJS to h3. The syntax remains the same; the only difference is the import statement.

  4. esbuild

    An extremely fast bundler for the web

    However, when you want to productionize your JS library, you need to bundle it. Otherwise, you will ship all the node_modules. Is used esbuild because it is able to bundle to CJS and ESM. Now, let's run the same benchmark with the bundled version.

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