Was nodejs require removed from stdlib in 1.4? Can...

# javascript

[Big Chungus]

Was nodejs require removed from stdlib in 1.4? Can't find it anymore

[turansky]

Looks like expected

[turansky]

Separate nodejs wrappers are already available

[Big Chungus]

But require is useful when building for the browser too

[Big Chungus]

E.g. importing css

[turansky]

It's target specific API in my understanding
Similar name - not marker

[Big Chungus]

How do you mean?

[turansky]

require exists for node and browser targets

[turansky]

But it doesn't mean, that it will exist in new target

[bashor]

nodejs’ require wasn’t part of stdlib

[Big Chungus]

i could swear i saw it in kotlinext.js package

[bashor]

there is require funs in the kotlin package for preconditions

[Big Chungus]

What about this from 1.3.x https://gitlab.com/lt.petuska/hazelcast-explorer/-/blob/master/hazelcast-explorer/src/frontendMain/kotlin/lt/petuska/hazelcast/explorer/index.kt#L3

[Big Chungus]

Hasn't moved to kotlinx.js package when kotlinext was renamed

[bashor]

Probably it’s from kotlin-extensions

[bashor]

https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-wrappers/blob/master/kotlin-extensions/src/main/kotlin/kotlinext/js/CommonJS.kt#L20

[Big Chungus]

I think this is a significant regresion, because now you need to declare an unused variable to include css (or declare require yourself as external function)

From this:

fun main() {
  require("css/main.css")
}

To this:

@JsModule("css/main.css")
@JsName("default")
external val useless:dynamic

fun main() {
}

[Big Chungus]

Wasn't kotlin extensions (kotlinext) just migrated to kotlinx?

[bashor]

No

[Big Chungus]

I see, my bad

[bashor]

Declarations from kotlin.dom and kotlin.browser moved to kotlinx.dom and kotlinx.browser

[Big Chungus]

I'm guessing JsObject interface an builder also is in kotlin-extensions?

[gbaldeck]

aren't you able to define external fun require(path: String) ?

[Big Chungus]

I am, I was just baffled where the old one went.

[Big Chungus]

In the end turns out I've just removed kotlin-extensions

[bashor]

do you mean this? https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-wrappers/blob/master/kotlin-extensions/src/main/kotlin/kotlinext/js/Helpers.kt#L7

[Big Chungus]

Yeap