Vite and AMD

[maasha]

Hello there,

In an unrelated project I have issues using vite with the azure-devops-extension-sdk library which uses AMD that vite does not handle out of the box. I do notice that you in this project apparently have resolved this problem. Could you please briefly explain your setup?

Cheers,

Martin

[woehrl01]

@maasha

I don't recall exactly, but I think I solved it by converting the sdk to not use AMD: https://github.com/woehrl01/azdo-workitem-documents-extension/blob/main/patches/azure-devops-extension-sdk%2B2.0.11.patch

[maasha]

@woehrl01 ah, I see. And I suppose creating the patch is not trivial?

There is a fork of the SDK explaining that converting from AMD to ESM requires a lot of fixing:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/azure-devops-extension-sdk-esm?activeTab=readme

also, I doubt that this package is production ready.

Moreover, there is no ESM version of the azure-devops-extension-api also required for creating DevOps extensions :o(

Cheers,

Martin

[woehrl01]

If I remember correctly, I just downloaded the sdk and changed from AMD to commonjs and used the resulting js as patch in this extension. This worked fine. @maasha

[maasha]

@woehrl01 Thanks. I still think it would be neat if there was a vite plugin for AMD ala rollup-plugin-amd (which I fail to make work).