CJS/ESM Libary in GJS? (original) (raw)

March 13, 2023, 10:10am 1

Hi Gnome Community,

I want to develop a little GTK4 Application with gjs and need to use this libary. I tried to figure it our for my self how to integreate this libary in my application but for the last two days I wasn’t able to wrap my head around it.
Could anyone provide me a foolproof tutorial?

fmuellner (Florian Müllner) March 13, 2023, 5:02pm 2

Could anyone provide me a foolproof tutorial?

No. A node library can only be used in gjs if it doesn’t use any node-specific APIs, either directly or indirectly. I’m afraid there’s no way around that, foolproof or otherwise.

ptomato (Philip Chimento) March 13, 2023, 5:46pm 3

There are some pointers in a presentation that I gave a few years ago: https://ptomato.name/talks/las2021/#26

If you can build a bundle with browserify, that will sometimes successfully replace the Node APIs. No guarantee though.

sonny (Sonny Piers) March 13, 2023, 7:40pm 4

I wrote a bit about this here MQTT module for gjs?

Thanks for all your fast answers. I think I will drop this project because I currently haven’t enough knowledge to understand javascript.

system (system) Closed March 28, 2023, 5:24am 6

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