publish es6 modules to npm

I was looking to use pdf.js today via something like import {pdfjs} from pdfjs-dist/pdf.js and learned that all that is available is a require module.

Would it be possible to add es6 modules somewhere on npm?

[Snuffleupagus]

Any plan to publish ES Modules to catch up with the ecosystem?

Please keep in mind that the primary focus of development for this library is the Firefox PDF Viewer.

For the general PDF.js library, we’ve been doing various work (over the years) to clean-up and simplify things in order to reduce the number of builds that we have to maintain/support. Hence why we provide both browser and Node.js support in the same builds in e.g. pdfjs-dist, and thus it’s not currently planned to add any “new” builds.

This project is developed with ES modules, but the src/ dir just isn’t published in the package on NPM.

And neither should it be, since the only thing that we officially support is the functionality accessed via https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/blob/master/src/pdf.js respectively https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/blob/master/web/pdf_viewer.component.js (once those files are built and and published in pdfjs-dist).

Please keep in mind that using the “raw” src/-files directly has never be officially recommended nor supported. (Hence the only thing that may, some day in the future, become supported are ESM-versions of the files in e.g. the https://github.com/mozilla/pdfjs-dist/tree/master/build and https://github.com/mozilla/pdfjs-dist/tree/master/web folders.)

Seems like this would be an easy fix, no?

Not really, since as mentioned above we don’t want to add even more builds and we also want to support both browsers and Node.js environments with the same builds.

[robrez]

As an interim workaround, we’ve published this:

https://github.com/bundled-es-modules/pdfjs-dist https://www.npmjs.com/package/@bundled-es-modules/pdfjs-dist