The plugin works by
- creating a tmp directory to write transformed js files to so that they could be improted with `file://` urls
- copying and patching vite's dev client file to fit gjs rather than the browser
- polyfilling WebSocket and fetch APIs in gjs
Now, vite has a new Environment API that's making things a bit easier and there's also #gjsify to provide the polyfills I need.
I'm still hitting some issues with the vite moduel runner and ESM evaluator tho
TIL about a new attempt to let GNOME JavaScript run code that uses Node.js API, including node:sqlite - #gjsify by @jumplink: https://gjsify.github.io/gjsify/
Sadly, there's lots of Claude in commits, the focus is on TypeScript, and there's a build step required to run applications, which all for me are anti-features. Still, it'll be interesting to start checking if my code runs on it.
taye
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