Provide esm version

[tobiasdiez]

With more and more build tools (vite, nuxt, etc) going towards an esm-first build, it would be nice if a proper esm interface could be provided, i.e. transpile and distribute esm version, including correct export declaration in package.json.

[michaelhays]

Found a few PRs that seem to address this: #43, #160, #171

For those of you using TypeScript and "type": "module", I'm using this as a workaround:

/imports/slugify.ts

/**
 * Hack to make 'slugify' import work with "type": "module".
 */
import slugify from 'slugify'

export default slugify as unknown as typeof slugify.default

/src/someFile.ts

import slugify from '~/imports/slugify.js'

const slug = slugify('Some Name')

[tyteen4a03]

+1 on this!

[kmturley]

Another alternative is to disable TypeScript checking for that line:

// @ts-ignore
slugify('some string')

Although this is not ideal

[glorat]

I've dealt with this in my typescript project by in-sourcing slugify and converting the code to typescript. See https://gist.github.com/glorat/5070ebd2fa275e2012a51300329a7a55

In-sourcing is de-facto a hard fork but the codebase is mature so wouldn't be an issue for most cases