Oh CommonJS! Why are you mESMing with me?! Reasons to ditch CommonJS

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Vitest

If your code breaks, you may have legacy issues. Consider using different tooling or packages. For example, you can migrate from Jest to vitest or from ExpressJS to h3. The syntax remains the same; the only difference is the import statement.

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esbuild

However, when you want to productionize your JS library, you need to bundle it. Otherwise, you will ship all the node_modules. Is used esbuild because it is able to bundle to CJS and ESM. Now, let's run the same benchmark with the bundled version.

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