Make code splitting for CJS optional instead of dropping

[antfu]

I have been using tsup for almost all my projects during the past year. I really enjoy the DX and minimal configuration it offers. Thanks so much for this awesome project.

However, the dropping of code splitting for CJS in v5.0 via #403, could be a huge obstacle to me. Giving that the ecosystem is still quite far from taking ESM-only packages, shipping CJS along with ESM seems to be a good transition approach (and this is one of the sweet points of tsup). It could be a common practice to expose some submodules we some reusable logic with the main package, for example, https://github.com/antfu/unplugin-icons/blob/main/src/vite.ts, the lack of CJS code-splitting make all submodules contain the full package content, which will not only make the usage costly but also break functionalities like internal sharing variables.

I do understand the limitation of CJS code-splitting and the reason for dropping it, but I hope this could be somehow delayed by making it disabled by default but able to opt-in optionally. Until the ecosystem catches up, or esbuild implements the naive code-splitting for CJS.

Thanks.

[github-actions]

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 5.1.0 🎉

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[egoist]

You can re-enable it by passing the --splitting flag.