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thegecko / webbluetooth

Node.js implementation of the Web Bluetooth Specification
https://thegecko.github.io/webbluetooth/
MIT License
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feat: add 'browser' field #188

Closed Symbitic closed 6 months ago

Symbitic commented 7 months ago

I'm excited about this one. This adds a browser entry to package.json so that when bundling for browsers, it will automatically use navigator.bluetooth when importing this package.

thegecko commented 7 months ago

I'm not sure what the use case for this is. It's general practice to stub out packages in the build system rather than relying on the package to do it

Apollon77 commented 7 months ago

Additionally why you would bundle this for browsers? SHould you not use the official navigator.bluetooth there instead of this library which is basically node.js?

Symbitic commented 7 months ago

Additionally why you would bundle this for browsers? SHould you not use the official navigator.bluetooth there instead of this library which is basically node.js?

That's the whole point. import { bluetooth } from "webbluetooth" will import the SimpleBLE bindings on Node and navigator.bluetooth in browsers, meaning you don't need to have separate files or packages for Node and browsers.

The specific use case I have in mind is Node-PoweredUp. It has this whole complex abstract adapter class and Noble and WebBluetooth implementations. With this, I will be able to refactor it to just use WebBluetooth directly and still work equally well on Node and browsers.

thegecko commented 7 months ago

What build/packaging system do you use for node-poweredup?

Symbitic commented 7 months ago

node-poweredup doesn't have a build system besides tsc, but build systems shouldn't matter. Bundling is done at the application-level, not library level. The bundler (esbuild, rollup, webpack, etc) decides which file to use based on package.json. If the browser field is defined, it uses that file if the target is the web browser. Otherwise, it uses the standard Node.js package resolution.

Symbitic commented 7 months ago

Just to be clear: there will be no changes for Node.js users. However, bundlers (webpack, vite, parcel, etc) and CDNs (esm.sh, unpkg, etc) will use the navigator.bluetooth wrapper when targeting browsers.

thegecko commented 6 months ago

The only other feedback I have is that adding this suggests the whole of this library will work in a browser environment (e.g. the new constructor). Perhaps we should document this isn't the case?

As feedback is relatively minor, I'm happy to merge this now.