Make npm package ES6 module friendly

[tidoust]

The NPM package only contains the index.json file. That file can easily be retrieved with require:

const specs = require("browser-specs");

However, I believe that there is no easy to achieve the same thing in a project that uses import statement (in other words, when the project enables ECMASCript modules). The following does not work:

import specs from "browser-specs";

For that to work, the entry point of the package needs to be a JS file, not a JSON one.

[tidoust]

Note ongoing proposal in ECMAScript to enable import of JSON modules

[tidoust]

Closing. Import attributes are still under development and may still change, but the feature is already supported in Node.js and Deno. The following works out of the box with Node.js v20.10.0 or above:

import specs from 'web-specs' with { type: 'json' };

Older versions of Node.js rather use assert:

import specs from 'web-specs' assert { type: 'json' };