My bad - I do need to RTFM :(

Please be aware, however, that we are "selling" the value of deno as an "improved/fixed node.js"

If we have to essentially re-factor / re-write the thousands of man-years of node code ... that will be much more challenging.

In my particular SNAFU here - it seems it would be easy to identify an unsupported node module import and produce that as an error message, rather than a cryptic "os error 5"?

To make a 1/2 as--d excuse: I have come to rely on rustc to help me with trivial (and not so trivial) mistakes and had mentally / by association extended the benefit of the doubt to deno as well - because it compiled and ran my node-module-polluted code, I expected it to run. Clearly, assumption is still the mother of all f-ups :)

May I also suggest that on the home page of deno.land, right under:

"Has a set of reviewed (audited) standard modules that are guaranteed to work with Deno: deno.land/std"

the following (or some such) text be added:

"No npm module support. Do not attempt to use node modules. This prevents dependency messes and security issues, etc."

I like it!

A require polyfill is already implemented on std

Check https://deno.land/[email protected]/node and https://deno.land/[email protected]/node/module.ts

A require polyfill is already implemented on std

Check https://deno.land/[email protected]/node and https://deno.land/[email protected]/node/module.ts

How do you even use the poly fill? There is nothing on the page to help. Thanks

@AddictArts you can now import built-in Node.js modules directly in Deno, like so:

import {createRequire} from "node:module";
const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
require(...);

@AddictArts you can now import built-in Node.js modules directly in Deno, like so:

import {createRequire} from "node:module";
const require = createRequire(import.meta.url);
require(...);

Thank you. I ended up importing index.ts and adding the tsconfig compiler option "allowImportingTsExtensions": true. I also leveraged import_map.json and deno.jsonc to reference it.