es module version

As the browser world finally is united under the “es module” flag it would be nice if chai would offer an es module version.

this would enable test files like this “natively” in the browser

import { expect } from 'chai';

// even for plugins that would be really nice
// import { myPlugin } from 'my-chai-plugin';
// chai.use(myPlugin);

describe('True Checking', () => {
  it('is false by default', () => {
    expect(false).to.be.false;
  });
});

For direct use in script tags we could still have an umd module. (could be use on node as well?) Webpack and other bundling tools usually understand es modules directly.

There are 2 possible ways:

• provide/build an es module version
• convert the code to es module and provide/build an umd module.

if there is any interest I could provide an MR.

PS: this also means that all dependencies need to offer an es module version. Luckily all of them are also owned by chai itself. PPS: Overview http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/chai

[daKmoR]

a humble request to ask if there are any updates? 🤗

[machineghost]

So … basically you claimed back at the start of 2019 that Chai would support modern JS (“very soon”). It’s now March of 2021 … maybe it’s time to admit you’re not going to support modern JS? Or at least provide some kind of status update?

P.S. For anyone looking for a solution instead of empty promises, see: https://github.com/bundled-es-modules/chai