Provide ESM modules

[maasha]

The related azure-devops-extension-sdk library kindly provides ESM modules that works with Vite.

I suggest that azure-devops-extension-api does the same!

[reed-lawrence]

This package is broken out-of-the-box without ESM in Angular. Angular imports the azure-devops-extension-sdk from the minified ESM, this module references the SDK.js meaning that two different modules are created by webpack, leading to the error: The AzureDevOps SDK is already loaded...

[vs4vijay]

Is there any progress on this issue? Additionally, this module is not compatible with ViteJS. We would like to make it compatible with ESM, do you have any plans for that?

[maasha]

@vs4vijay Maybe this can help: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77151318/how-to-include-javascript-amd-modules-in-a-vite-project

[aloisklink]

If you are interested, I have a PR open that seems to work with ViteJS: #126.

You can try it out by running npm install github:aloisklink/azure-devops-extension-api#2635bb031bb1870bf5de2c2ba31e858139543117 (it's basically that PR, except I've added an npm prepare script, so that you can install it directly from a git repo).

It hasn't been updated for a while, though, it's still based of v4.229.0, which is a few months old.

[peterwald]

I ran into this problem as well. The only workaround I could find was to build a private copy with ESM packaging.

[mpth]

Any plans to support ESM soon? It is pretty much a blocker when building Azure DevOps extensions with vite.

[dzhukovsky]

Any plans to support ESM soon? It is pretty much a blocker when building Azure DevOps extensions with vite.

Hi, if you need ESM support right now, there is a workaround. You can fork the repo and apply the changes from this PR:
#177

After that, reference your fork in package.json like this:

"azure-devops-extension-api": "https://github.com/dzhukovsky/azure-devops-extension-api.git#add-esm-support"

And from time to time sync your fork with the original repository.

I’ve been using this approach successfully in my own vite based extension:
https://github.com/dzhukovsky/azdo-advanced-library