Finally, a guide for Node.js and TypeScript and ESM that works

Re:Finally, a guide for Node.js and TypeScript and ESM that ... by herpdyderp on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @07:54AM (#38363022)

Tsx is great but doesn’t work in all situations unfortunately. Some broken cases that I remember off the top of my head are Playwright and test coverage.

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Re:Finally, a guide for Node.js and TypeScript and ESM that ... by privatenumber on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @08:49AM (#38363543)

Maintainer of tsx here.

tsx should be able to handle Playwright as of v4+, and hopefully the test coverage you're referring to.

Before, it was compiling ESM syntax to CJS as an effort to ease the ecosystem's CJS -> ESM migration, and hiccuping whenever it encountered `eval()`. Now it includes smarter checks to determine if a file needs to be compiled at all and skips processing most dependencies.

Hope it works well for you!

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Re:Finally, a guide for Node.js and TypeScript and ESM that ... by herpdyderp on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @11:06AM (#38365505)

I see v4 was published just 12 days ago. I'll have to give it another shot! Thanks!

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Re:Finally, a guide for Node.js and TypeScript and ESM that ... by e1g on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @09:54AM (#38364400)

Can confirm we use tsx with playwright with no issues. Thanks!

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