Breaking change in apollo-client.cjs.js

[davixyz]

Intended outcome:

Have access to ApolloProvider exported from apollo-client.cjs.js

"version": "3.3.21"

yay provider

Actual outcome:

ApolloProvider is no longer exported from apollo-client.cjs.js

 "version": "3.4.5",

no provider to be found :(

How to reproduce the issue:

update to latest version and try to access Provider from apollo-client.cjs

Versions

"version": "3.4.5",

Note
For reasons we have to access Apollo through an entire CJS implementation; I realize that the provider is now in react/react.cjs.js but we were thinking that apollo-client.cjs.js would have the entire apollo client implementation in a single file.

[benjamn]

@davixyz Could you import @apollo/client/main.cjs.js instead, or do you really need one big bundle file?

The apollo-client.cjs.js file is a build artifact and not something we intended to be part of the public API, but I do see how changing what it exports could be a breaking change, and I'm open to restoring it in some form, if that's helpful to you.

[davixyz]

We can adjust the imports as needed on our end; It's more of an issue in terms of NPM distributions; This might technically be a breaking change for all the clients consuming this file as the export changed and things were removed.

Maybe restoring it as the initial stable version was is the way to go for sake of correctness and calling it out as deprecated so maybe gets removed as distributable in following versions (But please do leave a single big bundle for us using some older CommonJS bundlers)

[benjamn]

@davixyz Please take a look at #8605 when you have a chance!

[aboveyunhai]

I encounter this problem when I upgrade from 3.4.4 to 3.4.5,
I have to downgrade back to 3.4.4 as well as discard changes from package-lock.json then npm i to reinstall the deps,
but I am not sure if it relates to the OP.