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esbuild-plugins-node-modules-polyfill
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Polyfills nodejs builtin modules and globals for the browser.
Polyfills nodejs builtin modules and globals for the browser.
node:
protocolnpm install --save-dev esbuild-plugins-node-modules-polyfill
import { nodeModulesPolyfillPlugin } from 'esbuild-plugins-node-modules-polyfill';
import { build } from 'esbuild';
build({
plugins: [nodeModulesPolyfillPlugin()],
});
Optionally configure which modules to polyfill:
import { nodeModulesPolyfillPlugin } from 'esbuild-plugins-node-modules-polyfill';
import { build } from 'esbuild';
build({
plugins: [nodeModulesPolyfillPlugin({
modules: ['crypto'],
})],
});
Optionally provide empty polyfills:
import { nodeModulesPolyfillPlugin } from 'esbuild-plugins-node-modules-polyfill';
import { build } from 'esbuild';
build({
plugins: [nodeModulesPolyfillPlugin({
modules: {
fs: 'empty',
crypto: true,
}
})],
});
Optionally inject globals when detected:
import { nodeModulesPolyfillPlugin } from 'esbuild-plugins-node-modules-polyfill';
import { build } from 'esbuild';
build({
plugins: [nodeModulesPolyfillPlugin({
globals: {
process: true,
Buffer: true,
}
})],
});
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Polyfills nodejs builtin modules and globals for the browser.
The npm package esbuild-plugins-node-modules-polyfill receives a total of 251,579 weekly downloads. As such, esbuild-plugins-node-modules-polyfill popularity was classified as popular.
We found that esbuild-plugins-node-modules-polyfill demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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