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Really though. What does it say about the JS ecosystem that so many high profile packages' maintainers let them get convinced by one weirdo to only ship CJS and add 500 transitive deps? THATs the state of our ecosystem?

Passle ☭@passle.dev

Amazes me how much of high profile JS libraries let themself get harb'd

What happened now? 😅

path-to-regexp is only available as cjs and doesnt ship as esm anymore

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Oliver Turner

@oliverturner.cloud

1 Apr

Unfortunately, given the unreasonable influence of this unreasonable individual, we are all in harb’s way

> anymore

I didn't know it was his package. And now that ESM can load CJS, he has the definitive excuse to not do it. Time to fork!

Jake Lazaroff

@jakelazaroff.com

1 Apr

not in browsers 🙃 CJS-only means it won't run on the web without a build step

Passle ☭

@passle.dev

1 Apr

^ we use it in our router package for frontend

Justin Fagnani

@justinfagnani.com

1 Apr

Can you switch to URLPattern?

Emanuele (Ema)

@ematipico.xyz

1 Apr

Oh didn't know people use it in browsers too. Well, again, time to fork! 🫠