Migrate very big hybrid project to Deno
Hey folks! I'm trying to figure out if we can migrate our 6M LOC from Node to Deno. A year ago it was fully commonjs, but when I joined the company I was stupefied by that and started a project to migrate it to Typescript. Nowadays about 30% of the codebase is written in Typescript (ESM) while the rest is in Javascript (CommonJS).
We currently use a mix of SWC and Babel to transpile and bundle the code and the tests. I started playing with Deno but realized it can only handle either fully CommonJS (meaning it won't recognize ESM files exist) or ESM (meaning it will break when seeing any require). That is unless I rename all thousands of JS files to
My question - is there a way to configure Deno to treat all
Another tangent - I tried using the same setup we're using for node (
I'm using
We currently use a mix of SWC and Babel to transpile and bundle the code and the tests. I started playing with Deno but realized it can only handle either fully CommonJS (meaning it won't recognize ESM files exist) or ESM (meaning it will break when seeing any require). That is unless I rename all thousands of JS files to
.cjsMy question - is there a way to configure Deno to treat all
.js.tsAnother tangent - I tried using the same setup we're using for node (
SWCRC=true deno -r @swc-node/register server.jsexport abstract classUnexpected token '@'.I'm using
deno 2.3.7typescript 5.8.3
