Re: Non-bootstrappable NPM packages

[Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org>]

Nicolas Graves <ngraves@ngraves.fr> writes:

> On 2019-07-24 15:41, Jelle Licht wrote:
>
>> Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> writes:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>> I’ve come to think that bootstrapping JavaScript might be easier than it
>>> looks.  As time goes on, Node gets better at the newer JavaScript
>>> features.  This removes the need for things like Babel or Rollup, since
>>> with some care, Node can run the source directly with out any
>>> transformations or bundling.  That being said, TypeScript looks to be a
>>> major issue, as it is used in many fundamental JavaScript packages and
>>> it is not bootstrappable.
>>
>> Very recently (IE about 94 minutes ago), I found out something
>> interesting that might be helpful; Sucrase[0] is, among other things, a
>> typescript transpiler that does not do any type checking, and it only
>> has some runtime dependencies.
>>
>> I created some “fiio”-packages as well [1] , and I have confirmed that
>> it actually works! My next step was of course to compile TypeScript
>> proper, and this worked with one tiny snag that I reported at [2]. After
>> manually fixing these problems in the TypeScript source tree, I was able
>> to transpile the TypeScript sources using guix-packaged
>> `node-sucrase-bootstrap'.
>
> Hi Jelle!
>
> Did someone made some progress on the build-system since that to allow
> for this to be taken into account? If you still have it, could you share
> your "fiio" packages once again? The paste link is expired. Thanks!

I don't have them anymore, but I could re-generate them.
Are you still interested, or am I too slow in responding, and are your
other node-related emails more relevant by now?

KR,
- Jelle