v4

[danielpza]

Highlights:

This is maintenance release for the most part. No new feature or import resolution changes.

• dropped some features and support for old versions to make maintenance easier.
• updated code to be up date with latest standards.

Migration docs

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• dropped support for old node versions
• dropped support for old typescript versions
• dropped main/types top level properties in package.json in favor of exports
• dropped jest in favor of node test runner
• esm only

Wishlist (some of these might get released in the current version):

• Clean up tests. The current test process is a mess, needs constant install/rebuild on every change. Look into migrating from jest to vitest/node test runner
• Remove external plugins integrations (nx plugin, etc) to keep surface area small and make maintenance easier, bring nx plugin back, the entry point is small enough to keep and it seems most folks using this plugin are because of nx Why and how are you using this project? #438
• ESM only
• add support for latest typescript version (5.9.2) can be done post v4

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TODO

• why were the nx plugin and custom ts-node register entry-points needed?, it seems both ts-node and nx have support for typescript plugins. Maybe we need to adjust the top level plugin factory. Related see Discussion: Consider adding support for nx transform style plugins nonara/ts-patch#183
• publish beta version to allow more testing before final release

closes #145

[lppedd]

Appreciate that you've rolled back the Nx support. And I agree with removing old versions of TS.

Btw, not sure if you're aware of this issue: microsoft/typescript-go#516. There was some discussion about ts-go's API surface for TS plugins.

[danielpza]

Wasn't aware of this discussion. Thanks for the link. I'll keep an eye out.

[lppedd]

Np. The sentiment seems to be on the line of "first let's complete the port, and then we'll think about an API". I'm not sure if it's the most reasonable approach considering the entirely new IPC design, but what can we do :/