mlly

Missing ECMAScript module utils for Node.js

While ESM Modules are evolving in Node.js ecosystem, there are still
many required features that are still experimental or missing or needed to support ESM. This package tries to fill in the gap.

Usage

Install npm package:

# using yarn
yarn add mlly

# using npm
npm install mlly

undefinedNote: Node.js 14+ is recommand.

Import utils:

// ESM
import { } from 'mlly'

// CommonJS
const { } = require('mlly')

Resolving ESM modules

Several utilities to make ESM resolution easier:

• Respecting ECMAScript Resolver algorithm
• Exposed from Node.js implementation
• Windows paths normalized
• Supporting custom extensions and /index resolution
• Supporting custom conditions
• Support resolving from multiple paths or urls

resolve

Resolve a module by respecting ECMAScript Resolver algorithm
(internally using wooorm/import-meta-resolve that exposes Node.js implementation).

Additionally supports resolving without extension and /index similar to CommonJS.

import { resolve } from 'mlly'

// file:///home/user/project/module.mjs
console.log(await resolve('./module.mjs', { url: import.meta.url }))

undefinedResolve options:undefined

• from: URL or string (default is pwd())
• conditions: Array of conditions used for resolution algorithm (default is ['node', 'import'])
• extensions: Array of additional extensions to check if import failed (default is ['.mjs', '.cjs', '.js', '.json'])

resolvePath

Similar to resolve but returns a path instead of URL using fileURLToPath.

import { resolvePath } from 'mlly'

// //home/user/project/module.mjs
console.log(await resolvePath('./module.mjs', { url: import.meta.url }))

createResolve

Create a resolve function with defaults.

import { createResolve } from 'mlly'

const _resolve = createResolve({ url: import.meta.url })

// file:///home/user/project/module.mjs
console.log(await _resolve('./module.mjs'))

undefinedExample: Ponyfill import.meta.resolve:

import { createResolve } from 'mlly'

import.meta.resolve = createResolve({ url: import.meta.url })

resolveImports

Resolve all static and dynamic imports with relative paths to full resolved path.

import { resolveImports } from 'mlly'

// import foo from 'file:///home/user/project/bar.mjs'
console.log(await resolveImports(`import foo from './bar.mjs'`, { url: import.meta.url }))

Syntax Analyzes

isValidNodeImport

Using various syntax detection and heuristics, this method can determine if import is a valid import or not to be imported using dynamic import() before hitting an error!

When resault is false, we usually need a to create a CommonJS require context or add specific rules to the bundler to transform dependency.

import { isValidNodeImport } from 'mlly'

// If returns true, we are safe to use `import('some-lib')`
await isValidNodeImport('some-lib', {})

undefinedAlgorithm:undefined

• Check import protocol
  • If is data: return true (✅ valid)
  • If is not node:, file: or data:, return false (
    ❌ invalid)
• Resolve full path of import using Node.js Resolution algorithm
• Check full path extension
  • If is .mjs, .cjs, .node or .wasm, return true (✅ valid)
  • If is not .js, return false (❌ invalid)
  • If is matching known mixed syntax (.esm.js, .es.js, etc) return false (
    ❌ invalid)
• Read closest package.json file to resolve path
• If type: 'module' field is set, return true (✅ valid)
• Read source code of resolved path
• Try to detect CommonJS syntax usage
  • If yes, return true (✅ valid)
• Try to detect ESM syntax usage
  • if yes, return false (
    ❌ invalid)

undefinedNotes:undefined

• There might be still edge cases algorithm cannot cover. It is designed with best-efforts.
• This method also allows using dynamic import of CommonJS libraries considering
  Node.js has Interoperability with CommonJS.

hasESMSyntax

Detect if code, has usage of ESM syntax (Static import, ESM export and import.meta usage)

import { hasESMSyntax } from 'mlly'

hasESMSyntax('export default foo = 123') // true

hasCJSSyntax

Detect if code, has usage of CommonJS syntax (exports, module.exports, require and global usage)

import { hasCJSSyntax } from 'mlly'

hasESMSyntax('export default foo = 123') // true

detectSyntax

Tests code against both CJS and ESM.

isMixed indicates if both are detected! This is a common case with legacy packages exporting semi-compatible ESM syntax meant to be used by bundlers.

import { detectSyntax } from 'mlly'

// { hasESM: true, hasCJS: true, isMixed: true }
hasESMSyntax('export default require("lodash")')

CommonJS Context

createCommonJS

This utility creates a compatible CommonJS context that is missing in ECMAScript modules.

import { createCommonJS } from 'mlly'

const { __dirname, __filename, require } = createCommonJS(import.meta.url)

Note: require and require.resolve implementation are lazy functions. createRequire will be called on first usage.

Import/Export Analyzes

Tools to quikcly analyze ESM synax and extract static import/export

• Super fast Regex based implementation
• Handle most of edge cases
• Find all static ESM imports
• Find all dynamic ESM imports
• Parse static import statement
• Find all named, declared and default exports

findStaticImports

Find all static ESM imports.

Example:

import { findStaticImports } from 'mlly'

console.log(findStaticImports(`
// Empty line
import foo, { bar /* foo */ } from 'baz'
`))

Outputs:

[
  {
    type: 'static',
    imports: 'foo, { bar /* foo */ } ',
    specifier: 'baz',
    code: "import foo, { bar /* foo */ } from 'baz'",
    start: 15,
    end: 55
  }
]

parseStaticImport

Parse a dynamic ESM import statement previusly matched by findStaticImports.

Example:

import { findStaticImports, parseStaticImport } from 'mlly'

const [match0] = findStaticImports(`import baz, { x, y as z } from 'baz'`)
console.log(parseStaticImport(match0))

Outputs:

{
  type: 'static',
  imports: 'baz, { x, y as z } ',
  specifier: 'baz',
  code: "import baz, { x, y as z } from 'baz'",
  start: 0,
  end: 36,
  defaultImport: 'baz',
  namespacedImport: undefined,
  namedImports: { x: 'x', y: 'z' }
}

findDynamicImports

Find all dynamic ESM imports.

Example:

import { findDynamicImports } from 'mlly'

console.log(findDynamicImports(`
const foo = await import('bar')
`))

findExports

undefinedNote: API Of this function might be broken in a breaking change for code matcher

import { findExports } from 'mlly'

console.log(findExports(`
export const foo = 'bar'
export { bar, baz }
export default something
`))

Outputs:

[
  {
    type: 'declaration',
    declaration: 'const',
    name: 'foo',
    code: 'export const foo',
    start: 1,
    end: 17
  },
  {
    type: 'named',
    exports: ' bar, baz ',
    code: 'export { bar, baz }',
    start: 26,
    end: 45,
    names: [ 'bar', 'baz' ]
  },
  { type: 'default', code: 'export default ', start: 46, end: 61 }
]

Evaluating Modules

Set of utilities to evaluate ESM modules using data: imports

• Allow evaluating modules using
• Automatic import rewrite to resolved path using static analyzes
• Allow bypass ESM Cache
• Stack-trace support
• .json loader

evalModule

Transform and evaluates module code using dynamic imports.

import { evalModule } from 'mlly'

await evalModule(`console.log("Hello World!")`)

await evalModule(`
  import { reverse } from './utils.mjs'
  console.log(reverse('!emosewa si sj'))
`, { url: import.meta.url })

undefinedOptions:undefined

• all resolve options
• url: File URL

loadModule

Dynamically loads a module by evaluating source code.

import { loadModule } from 'mlly'

await loadModule('./hello.mjs', { url: import.meta.url })

Options are same as evalModule.

transformModule

• Resolves all relative imports will be resolved
• All usages of import.meta.url will be replaced with url or from option

import { toDataURL } from 'mlly'
console.log(transformModule(`console.log(import.meta.url)`), { url: 'test.mjs' })

Options are same as evalModule.

Code Generation

Utilities to generate JavaScript code for ESM syntax.

genImport

Generate a static import statement.

import { genImport } from 'mlly'

// import { foo } from "pkg"
console.log(genImport('pkg', 'foo'))

// import { a, b } from "pkg"
console.log(genImport('pkg', 'foo'))

// import { foo as bar } from "pkg"
console.log(genImport('pkg', { name: 'foo', as: 'bar' }))

genDynamicImport

Generate a dynamic import statement.

import { genDynamicImport } from 'mlly'

// () => import("pkg")
console.log(genDynamicImport('pkg'))

// () => import("pkg").then(m => m.default || m)
console.log(genDynamicImport('pkg', { interopDefault: true }))

// import("pkg")
console.log(genDynamicImport('pkg', { wrapper: false }))

// () => import("pkg" /* webpackChunkName: "pkg" */)
console.log(genDynamicImport('pkg', { comment: 'webpackChunkName: "pkg"' }))

Other Utils

fileURLToPath

Similar to url.fileURLToPath but also converts windows backslash \ to unix slash / and handles if input is already a path.

import { fileURLToPath } from 'mlly'

// /foo/bar.js
console.log(fileURLToPath('file:///foo/bar.js'))

// C:/path
console.log(fileURLToPath('file:///C:/path/'))

normalizeid

Ensures id has either of node:, data:, http:, https: or file: protocols.

import { ensureProtocol } from 'mlly'

// file:///foo/bar.js
console.log(normalizeid('/foo/bar.js'))

loadURL

Read source contents of a URL. (currently only file protocol supported)

import { resolve, loadURL } from 'mlly'

const url = await resolve('./index.mjs', { url: import.meta.url })
console.log(await loadURL(url))

toDataURL

Convert code to data: URL using base64 encoding.

import { toDataURL } from 'mlly'

console.log(toDataURL(`
  // This is an example
  console.log('Hello world')
`))

interopDefault

Return the default export of a module at the top-level, alongside any other named exports.

// Assuming the shape { default: { foo: 'bar' }, baz: 'qux' }
import myModule from 'my-module'

// Returns { foo: 'bar', baz: 'qux' }
console.log(interopDefault(myModule))

sanitizeURIComponent

Replace reserved charachters from a segment of URI to make it compatible with rfc2396.

import { sanitizeURIComponent } from 'mlly'

// foo_bar
console.log(sanitizeURIComponent(`foo:bar`))

sanitizeFilePath

Sanitize each path of a file name or path with sanitizeURIComponent for URI compatibility.

import { sanitizeFilePath } from 'mlly'

// C:/te_st/_...slug_.jsx'
console.log(sanitizeFilePath('C:\\te#st\\[...slug].jsx'))

License

MIT - Made with ❤️