Export a browser version

[benmccann]

We had a user who wanted to use this package on Cloudflare Workers. The Node APIs are not available there so you can't import node:fs. It'd be nice if the other APIs could be made available without that functionality and import

You could make it available in the browser by exporting a smaller subset of APIs that has most of the functionality except for writing to files:

"exports": {
  "browser": "./my-browser-version.js",
  "require": "./my-cjs-version.cjs",
  "default": "./my-esm-version.js",
}

[sebbo2002]

In the longer term I plan to release a new major version that does not use fs and http at all (see #478). I also want to introduce some other breaking changes there. Unfortunately I don't have time to work on that at the moment and don't expect to get around to it until autumn at the earliest.

In the meantime, pull requests that fix the problem are of course welcome.

[lschloetterer]

Just FYI, I got it running in Cloudflare Workers by adding this in the package.json

"browser": {
    "fs": false
}

[sebbo2002]

I just pushed a preview of ical-generator v6 to develop, which should fix this issue. I would be happy if you could test the new version and give me some feedback. You can install the version with npm i ical-generator@next. All changes in this release can be found here.

[benmccann]

@cimnine does this work for you?

[cimnine]

Indeed 👍

[sebbo2002]

Since v6 has been released for a few days now, I'm closing this ticket. If there are still problems in the browser, feel free to open a ticket again.