[THRIFT-5811] Add ES module support to JS codegen

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.20.0
• Component/s: Node.js - Compiler

Language

javascript

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Cameron Martin
• Created: 12/Aug/24 08:58
• Updated: 12/Aug/24 08:58

Description

The JS code generator can only output in CommonJS format. This causes problems with bundlers that only support CommonJS in node_modules, such as Vite.

This is a proposal to add a new flag, esm, to the JS code generator to output ES modules, rather than CommonJS. This will only be valid if the node flag is also set.