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Emit ES modules from JavaScript backend #511

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@jiribenes jiribenes commented Jun 25, 2024

Resolves #405

Disclaimer: most of this PR was written by Claude 3.5 Sonnet

TODO

  • test separate compilation (EDIT: I left the separate compilation as is for now)
  • test how this works with the Effekt website
  • test ES modules in the browser
  • run CI
  • fix Windows (see comment below)
  • rewrite complex async/await loader into a simple .then loader
  • tidy up

How to use in the browser

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>My First Effekt Program</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <script type="module">
      import { main } from './out/$MY_EFFEKT_MODULE.mjs'

      main()
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

Disclaimer: most of this PR was written by Claude 3.5 Sonnet
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On Windows, the hack to load a file dynamically without ES modules doesn't work, because there it's a .mjs file, not a file-ending-less file.

file:///D:/a/effekt/effekt/out/tests/effekt.javascripttests/sideeffects__main.mjs:2
const { pathToFileURL } = require('url');
                          ^
ReferenceError: require is not defined

Instead, we might want to:

  1. investigate whether we really need the pathToFileURL import at all
  2. write the import directly nicely in the .mjs file:
    val jsScript = s"""
      |import { main } from '${mjsFilePath}';
      |main();
    """.stripMargin

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// NOTE: This is a hack since this file cannot use ES imports & exports
// because it doesn't have the .mjs ending. Sigh.
// Also, we add the 'file://' prefix to satisfy Windows.
val jsScript = s"import('file://${mjsFileName}').then(({main}) => { main(); })"
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I'll need to revisit this: the path should be relative (see #566).

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Let's just try using file:filename instead 🤔

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// NOTE: This is a hack since this file cannot use ES imports & exports
// because it doesn't have the .mjs ending. Sigh.
// Also, we add the 'file://' prefix to satisfy Windows.
val jsScript = s"import('file://${mjsFileName}').then(({main}) => { main(); })"
// NOTE: This is a hack since this file cannot use ES imports & exports
// because it doesn't have the .mjs ending. Sigh.
// Also, we add the 'file:' prefix to satisfy Windows.
val jsScript = s"import('file:${mjsFileName}').then(({main}) => { main(); })"

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Uhoh.

(node:8164) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: TypeError [ERR_INVALID_FILE_URL_PATH]: File URL path must be absolute

I'll need to think about this, worstcase we need to dynamically get the current file in JS...

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