Polyfills or fallbacks for browser use with Webpack 5

[ahocevar]

When compiling an application that depends on geotiff.js with Webpack 5, Webpack complains about missing poyfills or fallbacks for http, https, fs and url.

For fs it should be 100% safe to add a fallback. For http, https and url, a polyfill might be required, depending on if/how it is used in a browser environment. I have not checked that though.

Assuming a fallback is fine for all these dependencies, it would be sufficient to add the following to package.json:

"browser": {
  "fs": false,
  "http": false,
  "https": false,
  "url": false
} 

This is related to #98.

The issue came up in openlayers/openlayers#12729.

A dependency of geotiff.js, readable-stream, has the same problem. See nodejs/readable-stream#448 for the ticket there, which also helps a bit in understanding the problem.

[kasugaiasuka]

Is #234 also relevant?

[ahocevar]

@kasugaiasuka Oh yes, #234 will probably fixe this issue. Thanks for reporting that!

[Morgul]

I can confirm that version 1.0.6 fixes my project that's using vite and openlayers (and geotiff as a dependency of openlayers). Just ran into this yesterday, so it's wonderful to see the fix land already.

[constantinius]

@ahocevar I think we can close this issue, right?