how to bundle yargs with esbuild

[hardfist]

It seems that esbuild will leave import.meta untouched when bundling, which make the bundle code not working for cjs format

[bcoe]

@hardfit could you provide a minimal example I could run, demonstrating the build process.

import.meta should only be used by the ESM version of yargs. If you instead bundle build/index.cjs, it does not expose import.meta.

[hardfist]

you can reproduce the problem here, https://github.com/hardfist/yargs-bundle

$ yarn install && yarn bundle && node bundle.js

[Wallacy]

FWIW: Change from import yargs from 'yargs' to const yargs = require('yargs') fix my bundle, but that is not ideal anyway.

[bcoe]

@Wallacy @hardfist perhaps we could add a guide in bundling, with this workaround for esbuild?

[baob]

Would this be the same problem I'm seeing as Cannot resolve module ...../node_modules/yargs/index.cjs ? when running flow against versions 16 & 17 of yargs ?

[Wallacy]

@Wallacy @hardfist perhaps we could add a guide in bundling, with this workaround for esbuild?

Yes, that works for esbuild.

[bcoe]

Perhaps we should add an esbuild sample? anyone interested in contributing?

[xkn1ght]

seems relative issue: evanw/esbuild#1492