I'm sorry, could you please tell me when you're going to merge this?

Are there plans to pull this in any time soon? As far as I can see it works fine. Not having ESM support for sandboxed workers is a huge PITA.

@grahamb I wish it was so easy as to just add support to ESM, the problem is that it breaks other stuff... I wrote this piece of post maybe it is useful to you: https://blog.taskforce.sh/using-typescript-with-bullmq/

I saw that post, and no, unfortunately it doesn't help. My workaround for now was to alter the compiled CJS build to use await import rather than require, and host a tarball of that myself; this works exceptionally well, but not optimal as now I have to maintain my own fork and redo a build. I guess I need to search for a replacement jobs processor if BullMQ isn't going to be compatible with modern node 😕

I guess I need to search for a replacement jobs processor if BullMQ isn't going to be compatible with modern node

Or you can provide a working solution too.

I wish it was so easy as to just add support to ESM, the problem is that it breaks other stuff...

@manast I've been poking around all the issues and I see when ESM is added it gets reverted due to various reasons. Is there a high level explanation as to what is breaking when require changes to await import for sandboxed processors? It is hard to tell from the PRs and issues since some users report it working.

This is due the way Node works. Depending on the context where you put Bull (i.e. the settings in the package.json of the application depending on Bull) it may break if we enable ESM. It is super hard to make it compatible with all current setups supported by Node.

@manast What about a separate build? Or should the existing esm build support multiple setups? I am trying to understand what blockers exist in this library or node itself order to support this feature?

I am trying to understand what blockers exist in this library or node itself order to support this feature?

Me too. It is super difficult to get it right, I spent plenty of hours to no avail, besides it is completely ilogical there does not seem to exist any proper way to do it.