ES6 module no export Terminal

When I follow the doc to import Terminal as an ES6 module.

The recommended way to load xterm.js is via the ES6 module syntax:

import { Terminal } from 'xterm';

I got the following error. I opened the xterm.js and found it’s an minified js file and it indeed didn’t export Terminal.

The requested module '../../../node_modules/xterm/lib/xterm.js' does not provide an export named 'Terminal'

I’m not using any building tools. I just used plain ES6 import syntax.

[justinfagnani]

Is there any chance of moving to native modules in a major release? Every current major browser, and the past 3 major (soon to be 4 next moth) of Node, supports modules natively.

@Tyriar

then you lose support for other better supported ways of importing. Eventually we’ll move there but shipping a library that supports many different import types is tricky.

I don’t think there are better ways of importing than native modules. Every other way requires tools or userland loaders, and can be targeted with native modules and a tool anyway.

At this point I really don’t think it’d even be worth it to publish two packages. Applications that support older browsers can really easily consume JS module dependencies and compile them to a different format. It’s the default behavior for Rollup and Webpack.

One problem with not publishing standard JS modules is that you library is shut off from those that are using native modules. I’m trying to use a terminal widget for a project, but all my libraries are modules only, and there’s no good way to import UMD from native modules.

[elgs]

This is a big deal, because with the REAL ES6 support, the client can get rid of the dependency of build tools, though the build tools are awesome, but at least it’s not necessary.