ES6 support when using import instead of require

[subhranshudas]

Hi,

Is there any way we can use this package to use for ES6's import syntax?

Thanks.

Regards,
Subhranshu

[watson]

Are you already using the experimental ESM support in Node.js or are you transpiling your code? We should work just fine with transpiled code as that will just use require after being transpiled.

But we will need to add support for native ESM at some point, but ESM support in Node.js is currently experimental and should not be used in production.

In any case, it should be possible for us add support for ESM by using a custom loader: https://nodejs.org/api/esm.html#esm_loader_hooks

[watson]

Closing this for now due to lack of activity. Feel free to comment if you think it should be re-opened 🙂

[ebuildy]

Hello,

is it something planned? Or maybe a way to force the detection?

Thanks you,

[trentm]

Hi @ebuildy, yes supporting ES modules is on radar. I'm not positive it would land in this module as the mechanism for hooking into imports will be different. elastic/apm-agent-nodejs#1952 is probably a better issue to use to track this.

[shikloshi]

+1