Check me here... I can't use require() if I'm in a JS module (ReferenceError) but I can't use import if I'm *not* in a module (SyntaxError)
How am I supposed to reliably load something if this file needs to be used in both contexts??? Losing my marbles
Related, did you know that running
new Response(new Blob([binary], { type: 'application/wasm' }));
will cause some random WebAssembly (large!) module to be compiled? Not even the one in `binary`!
oh this is unhinged
await WebAssembly.compile(Buffer.from(require('./xyz.wasm.js'), 'base64'))
where xyz.wasm.js is a js module that does module.exports = 'some_base64_string'
@gcampax all of the above, probably; I'm doing some dynamic instrumentation of a bunch of existing packages and then running them
Maybe when I'm injecting code I should check for require(/import in the source code...
@tekknolagi no there is no way because loading a module itself is async: modules have top-level await. So you need to make everything async.
The best solution is probably using a bundler like webpack that supports both import and require and doesn't care too much about the package type...
Or you can turn commonjs modules into exporting a top level async function that returns the exports themselves, and rewrite all uses of require to be async. That's essentially what the bundler would do...
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