Remark: Converting remark to es modules

[probablyup]

Is this something you'd be interested in community involvement from?

I'd love to work on it, as it would help people using the library in the browser thanks to es module treeshaking capabilities in webpack 2, etc, potentially smaller bundles 👍

[wooorm]

Hi Evan, thanks for the issue!

To be honest, I’m not a fan of “ES2020”. Yup, it’s coming to JS everywhere, so the code will change sometime in the future, but I want to wait for stuff to stabilise first. I think support in Node is very important.

Of course, require isn’t standard JS and doesn’t work everywhere, but at least it’s very stable, and I don’t feel modules is stable enough to make the jump.

P.S. I experienced rewriting libraries with CoffeeScript: I’d rather rewrite my stuff as few times as possible :)
P.P.S. I’ve added you to unifiedjs and wooorm/remark, if you want you can work on branches to rewrite remark-parse and unified as modules so we can discuss the results of tree shaking! (let me know if I need to add you to more repo’s)

[Rokt33r]

I want to help this too!

[wooorm]

Oh btw I’m very open to more people chiming in!

[probablyup]

Awesome, thank you Titus! I'll play around in a branch and do some size comparisons.

[wooorm]

@probablyup @Rokt33r Any news for this folks?

[probablyup]

Not yet, I've been away for a week and a deadline at work before that.
It'll probably be gradual work for me.
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[wooorm]

:+1: Do let me know if you need help!

[Rokt33r]

I'll start working this on this weekend.

[wooorm]

Closing for now, I’m still super open to it, if it actually makes things smaller!