Nx, WebPack, ESM and Sindre Sorhus

[scott-lc]

I suspect this is going to cause a stir in the Node tooling community, including Nx:

https://gist.github.com/sindresorhus/a39789f98801d908bbc7ff3ecc99d99c

Looks like on Friday he started updating some of the less popular of his 1000+ NPM packages to be ESM only. As such, Nx Node builds no longer work with his ESM-only modules:

Error [ERR_REQUIRE_ESM]: Must use import to load ES Module...
require() of ES modules is not supported.
require() of ...is an ES module file as it is a .js file whose nearest parent package.json contains "type": "module" which defines all .js files in that package scope as ES modules.

Who is Sindre Sorhus and why should you care? I promise you are using, either directly or indirectly, something he wrote:

https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=author%3Asindresorhus&ranking=popularity

This is not an Nx problem per se, but with how Nx uses Webpack 4, ES5 and CJS modules. Regardless it almost certainly is going to affect Nx users.