Tracker for Bundler Support

[balupton]

This issue will serve to track bundler support for the editions field. If the bundler directly supports the editions field, then the autoloader can be successfully bypassed, and the optimal edition can be used for the bundler's requirements.

Why should bundlers support editions? Because the editions autoloader gets installed 800k times a week, and 4m times a month, and is used by over 100 packages. Plus, because editions allows the bundler to utilise the optimal edition for its use case, hence why editions exist in the first place - so the optimal edition is used for the user and bundler.

Learn more about editions.

Supported

• browserify - already partially supported as it uses the browser field

Underway

• pika - already partially supported as it uses the module field
  • boundation generates compatible editions support for it automatically

Not Yet Implemented

• rollup
• webpack
• pkg/ncc
• babel
• jspm

Reported Bundler Issues

Post the issue on the bundler requesting editions support, referencing this issue, and I will add it here.

Reported User Issues

• getmac fails on electron as electron doesn't support editions getmac#46 - electron
• getmac fails on webpack as webpack doesn't support editions getmac#43 - webpack
• getmac fails on pkg/ncc as pkg/ncc does not support editions getmac#40 - pkg/ncc

Other references

• Would editions be useful here? jkrems/proposal-pkg-exports#13
• https://twitter.com/balupton/status/1115432589626499072
• https://twitter.com/balupton/status/1083259497412321280