ES2015 to CommonJS import/export transformer

Fully based on ascjs, asbundle is a no-brainer to create out of the box browser compatible bundles. Don't miss it out!

This module does one thing only: it loosely transpiles ES2015import/export statements into valid CommonJS in order to fix the only part of Node that's incompatible with modern JS.

You can use ascjs as binary utility or as module.

npm install -g ascjs # to see what you can do ascjs --help 

As executable, you can use ascjs to output, or save, some code content.

ascjs code ascjs --ignore=a.js,b.js sourceFile ascjs --no-default ascjs sourceFile ascjs sourceFile destFile # folders are recursively parsed# destFolder is mandatory ascjs sourceFolder destFolder

You can also use it via pipe operator.

echo code | ascjs cat source.js | ascjs | uglifyjs -o dest.js

As module, you can require it and use it to convert ESM to CJS.

constascjs=require('ascjs');ascjs('import "test";');// require("test");

• extremely lightweight, based on babylon for performance and reliability, it transforms only imports/exports ignoring everything else
• produces modern JavaScript, you are in charge of extra transformations if needed
• indentation, spaces, semi or no-semi are preserved: beautiful source code remains beautiful
• uses same Babel convention, resolving export default ... intent as exports.default
• you can finally write .js code and transform it for Node only before publishing on npm
• you could write .mjs modules and transform them into CommonJS for Browserify or other bundlers as target

• live bindings for exported values are not preserved. You need to delegate in scope eventual changes
• dynamic import(...) is untouched. If you write that, let Webpack handle it for you later on
• there is no magic whatsoever in module names resolution, what you write in ESM is what you get as CJS

• --ignore=... a comma separated paths to ignore parsing
• --no-default remove the __esModule flag and export default via module.exports =

This module can transform the following ES2015+ code

importfunc,{a,b}from'./module.js';import*astmpfrom'other';constval=123;exportdefaultfunctiontest(){console.log('ascjs');};export{func,val};

into the following one:

'use strict';constfunc=(m=>m.__esModule ? m.default : m)(require('./module.js'));const{a, b}=require('./module.js');consttmp=require('other');constval=123;functiontest(){console.log('ascjs');}Object.defineProperty(exports,'__esModule',{value: true}).default=test;exports.func=func;exports.val=val;