Failed init cli on NPM about esm.sh HOT 7 OPEN

Hi @schlichtanders thanks for reporting this issue. Reejs had removed support for Deno polyfill a few versions ago, due to unintended side affects.
To intentionally enable deno support, please add --deno parameter at the end of your reejs command.
(Since you're using npx, there's need of addititonal "--" before that parameter, in order to pass the additional parameter to reejs cli)

I currently tried that and then the deno polyfills loads up, but fails with the following error:

 INFO  Saving important data...
ReferenceError: __dirname is not defined in ES module scope
This file is being treated as an ES module because it has a '.js' file extension and '/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/node_modules/reejs/.reejs/cache/package.json' contains "type": "module". To treat it as a CommonJS script, rename it to use the '.cjs' file extension.
    at https://esm.sh/v135/@deno/[email protected]/node/shim-deno.mjs|Node/v18.16.1 (reejs/0.17.0):109:13666
    at https://esm.sh/v135/@deno/[email protected]/node/shim-deno.mjs|Node/v18.16.1 (reejs/0.17.0):109:458
    at https://esm.sh/v135/@deno/[email protected]/node/shim-deno.mjs|Node/v18.16.1 (reejs/0.17.0):110:3076
    at https://esm.sh/v135/@deno/[email protected]/node/shim-deno.mjs|Node/v18.16.1 (reejs/0.17.0):109:458
    at https://esm.sh/v135/@deno/[email protected]/node/shim-deno.mjs|Node/v18.16.1 (reejs/0.17.0):110:4066
    at https://esm.sh/v135/@deno/[email protected]/node/shim-deno.mjs|Node/v18.16.1 (reejs/0.17.0):109:458
    at https://esm.sh/v135/@deno/[email protected]/node/shim-deno.mjs|Node/v18.16.1 (reejs/0.17.0):110:59466
    at https://esm.sh/v135/@deno/[email protected]/node/shim-deno.mjs|Node/v18.16.1 (reejs/0.17.0):109:458
    at https://esm.sh/v135/@deno/[email protected]/node/shim-deno.mjs|Node/v18.16.1 (reejs/0.17.0):110:68331
    at https://esm.sh/v135/@deno/[email protected]/node/shim-deno.mjs|Node/v18.16.1 (reejs/0.17.0):109:458

I'll be debugging more of it later.

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In case the cli cannot be installed on npm, it would be great to update the central website documentation to reflect this

Esm.sh's original service is to serve url imports, and is not a cli focused tool. The cli you see on deno & reejs - esm.sh only manages the importmaps file, but the underlying URL imports work is done by deno & reejs themselves.

You might want to look at jspm if you have problems running either of these two.

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FYI, in v136 the CLI script will be deprecated, instead a vscode extension will be released for import map updating(support index.html/importmap.json/deno.json)

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Here's my personal notice that explains this new error, I've already encountered it before:
__dirname is defined in cjs, but not in mjs/esm.
esm.sh currently still cannot polyfill/fix this.

From my end/Reejs' end - it tries to polyfill __dirname at the start of each file where necessary. However I either disabled that support 2 months ago (that's when I last updated reejs) or reejs failed to polyfill __dirname from its side too.

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I don't want to use deno, but want to use npm - hence I don't have deno installed

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In case the cli cannot be installed on npm, it would be great to update the central website documentation to reflect this

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You might want to look at jspm if you have problems running either of these two.

My research already pointed me to jspm (took some time to find it). Thank you for the pointer, it really solves the cli part for import maps and also supports esm.sh

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