Why does this library has npm package?

Hi,

I used this package in the browser and it works great.

When I realized that it is also available as npm package. I was wondering why and how we can use it on the server side.

I also saw this code in github project page:

// CommonJS:
const dat = require('dat.gui');

// ES6:
import * as dat from 'dat.gui';

If I am not wrong the above both are serverside JS programming similar to NodeJS, can’t be used in the browser unless we build them with browserify or rollup.

My question is why is this package available in npm? Is there any use cases of using it in server side?

With regards, Nithin B.

[MacroMan]

I’m not really sure what you’re confused by, as you seem to have answered your own question. You wouldn’t use this on the server side, it’s just an example of how to load the library in ES6 and/or extend it’s functionality, which can then be compiled to run in a browser, hence you can install it with npm.

[donmccurdy]

This library doesn’t officially run serverside in Node.js. With some (a lot) of work you could perhaps hotpatch it to function, but I wouldn’t be able to tell you how to do so sorry. And just generating HTML is not enough… you still need JS to make the GUI interactive, and so the dat.gui package needs to be in the client anyway.

So, the npm package exists purely for users who want to use dependency management to build their browser-side packages as @MacroMan mentions.