[AskJS] Do you consider ESM to have more benefits than drawbacks in node?

• node

  922 103,634 9.9 JavaScript

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Yes, but you're missing the fact that sync file access is much faster than async. I think this contributes to the fact that esm is questionably slower in some cases https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/44186

• TypeScript

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  TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

  

Because it's implicit, CJS creates a bunch of resolution issues with Typescript, to the point where if you want to code for the browser, you can't easily can't and have to either recompile with something like webpack to rewrite the module resolution, or add .js to all your TS imports, which already looks weird (you'd think you're importing the .ts files). sip.js has that issue.

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• SIP.js

  4 1,821 0.0 TypeScript

  A simple, intuitive, and powerful JavaScript signaling library

Because it's implicit, CJS creates a bunch of resolution issues with Typescript, to the point where if you want to code for the browser, you can't easily can't and have to either recompile with something like webpack to rewrite the module resolution, or add .js to all your TS imports, which already looks weird (you'd think you're importing the .ts files). sip.js has that issue.

• extless-loader

  1 3 0.0 JavaScript

  Loads Node ESM in a more compatible way by making extensions optional.

Same for extension-less loading, I wrote a loader for this: https://github.com/tbranyen/extless-loader. Perhaps it will be an option in the future.

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