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Use case: Code transform step without esModule/scriptModule emitting
Hiya—
My use case here is exporting a shared library from an existing larger Deno codebase, to be consumed by number of different TypeScript apps running in both Deno and on the web — i.e. just using dnt for the first "code transform" & shimming step without any actual JS compilation.
This almost works perfectly but turns out to be a bit tricky for a couple of minor reasons:
- The
.ts
-to-.js
import path rewriting [^1] means that other Deno apps can't load files from the transformed source directory, as the extensions are now '.js'.- (ref: https://github.com/denoland/dnt/issues/154 - I think this is one use case where that's undesirable)
- I don't need scriptModule or esModule outputs (just the transformed TypeScript source code), however dnt throws an error if both are disabled.
I'd be happy to make a PR to make both of those behaviors configurable, but mostly wanted a gut check first - is this a bad idea / does this align with dnt
s goals / am I misunderstanding something fundamental here?
[^1]: edit: Looks like this is perhaps actually happening somewhere deeper than that, but — same idea.