A bit surprised to see a new framework boasting to ship as UMD. Are developers still using commonjs? I'm sure some continue to CDN inject libraries. But even then ESM is well supported.
A bit surprised to see a new framework boasting to ship as UMD. Are developers still using commonjs? I'm sure some continue to CDN inject libraries. But even then ESM is well supported.
>Are developers still using commonjs?
Yes, and every other flavor too. "Developers" isn't a single hive-mind entity, and there are many different purposes for javascript, and many different kinds of systems where javascript can be used.
Would you prefer to see ESM or neither?
ES6 modules. Tooling can take care of generating UMD from that as a single source of truth and since it’s the language standard for years now it’s the best supported format in the ecosystem. At this point UMD/CommonJS/etc are historical artifacts only useful to legacy codebases and by now they’ve all adopted whatever ESM->legacy compilation pipeline they need.
Thanks for this. I stopped writing JS for awhile just as ES6 was coming around the corner / coming into use. This will be in 0.0.2.