Will Wappler move to ES modules instead CommonJS in nodeJS projects?

[Alexander_Paladines]

Im’ not sure, but I remember read about the possibility that Wappler move to ESM, but I can’t find the reference right now, so, I wonder if Wappler Teams is already working in this move to ESM or maybe is a discarting idea.
If positive, maybe a approx date.

[kfawcett]

ES modules: yay or nay?

Well in the browser it is easy, you can always bundle and eventually support ESM natively. We will be doing just that eventuality moving to full ES6 modules in the browser with App Connect. It might be however with the next major App Connect version as many things will have to change and we can implement also some new core optimizations. So it might take a while to get there. In NodeJS and server Connect there is a different story. The current NodeJS community is a bit divided between CJS and …

[Alexander_Paladines]

Hi, thanks @kfawcett for the reference.

Now is almost 3 years from the “medium post” about CJS vs ESM, and almost 2 years since @George post.
Would be greate to know if EMS in server side (server connect) is on radar of the Wappler Team.
Currectly nodeJS support ESM natively in stable since version 14.

@George, @patrick

[George]

ESM modules on the server side are definitely on our radar. We are just waiting for all server side NodeJS packages that we use like express and others to become fully esm compatible as well.

[mebeingken]

I'm bumping into this again today. Found a great library, and can't find a way to use it due to it being ESM.

Are there ways to do this yet within Wappler?

[mebeingken]

fyi for the crowd, with the help of AI I was able to make a .mjs wrapper for the library, changed the syntax of the underlying .js file references, and have this working now.