Show HN: At a Glance ESM Support for NPM Packages

9 points

4 years ago

We've rolled out a feature for openbase.com that we think is a DX game changer for Node devs. Since the emergence of ECMA Script modules, it's been a continuous guessing game as to what kind of exports a package has. That's never really been discoverable without using a site like unpkg, or installing the package and inspecting package.json. Openbase now displays the ES Module support level (e.g. type of exports) on all of their package pages.

We added this feature because our devs are some of the folks continually caught off guard by installing an NPM dependency only to find out it's ESM-only. If that's you too, or if the type of exports matter for your project, check out the package on Openbase first.

https://openbase.com

A few screenshots:

- https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/76371/202783702-eca2c168-bb67-440d-aafc-41905563dd46.png

- https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/76371/202783704-2b87d49d-dfb7-48a5-b355-d5e37b3e5a80.png

- https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/76371/202783706-601d9957-2820-4bb1-aa99-d2abcebf51f8.png