module.exports instead of global polyfill?

Hi! I’ve tried to use this module by the CommonJS convention, like that:

var setImmediate = require('setimmediate');
setImmediate(function () {});

And found out that this code doesn’t work.

Is there a specific reason you keep to exposing setImmediate to the global scope instead of exporting a module?

It’s quite uncomfortable to use that as a polyfill as a module, because there’s a special service for polyfills, polyfill.io, which ensures the environment and in that a user can avoid importing polyfills as dependencies.

Besides, user can always compile module standalone with browserify -s, so it is not necessary to force him into using global-scope setImmediate.

[domenic]

import 'setimmediate'

[geyang]

this is fantastic. We should add this to readme.

For the record, I’m using typescript and this works flawlessly.