Updating the following JavaScript libraries to be compliant with the final ESM (a.k.a. import / export) specs (March 2023 & March 2024).

This will make them more compatible with both framework-free and bundler-dependent development, both for TypeScript and JavaScript.

• DashKeys.js - Encoding and Decoding Addresses, WIFs, etc (Base58Check)
• DashHD.js - BIP-32, BIP-44 Wallet Derivation
• DashRPC.js - HTTP RPCs
• DashTx.js - Signing & Broadcasting Transactions
• DashMessage.js - Message Signing & Verifying
• DashP2P.js - CoinJoin, Inventory
• DashJoin.js - CoinJoin
• DashGov.js - Governance, Proposals
• DashPlatform.js - Evo (in-progress)
• Secp256k1.js - Generating, Signing, and Verifying Keys (bytes)

It will also remove some annoying boilerplate and make both type and module resolutions generally easier to work with in JavaScript and TypeScript.

Why

We built the Dash SDK to be 100% compatible across Browsers, Bundlers, and Node, as well as all meta-frameworks (Vite, Nuxt, etc).

Due to a lack of consensus between the various Browser and Server vendors over the last 10 years, the only reliable ways to do this were either to use a variant of the CommonJS standard, or to use a pseudo-JavaScript language and “compile” it to different JavaScript targets, and publish multiple versions.

Despite having some cumbersome boilerplate, we opted for universally-compatible JavaScript because it’s simpler and less error-prone.

Now that the standard is both complete and has been implemented in Browsers (for over 18 months), and Server JavaScript (currently in beta, but soon to be stable in early 2025), we can confidently move to ESM without having to publish multiple versions, or deal with breaking inconsistencies between platforms and vendors.

How

A tedious process of going through each library, its tests, and its demo applications, and updating the module system to ESM (a.k.a. “import”), and then republishing.

What

I’ll be systematically updating the modules to be consistent:

• imports and exports in the JavaScript files
• package.json imports and exports maps
• index.html importmap scripts
• tsc include paths
• various tooling updates

I’ll also be verifying that the published packages work as expected.

Funding Development

Requesting 100 DASH total.

50 DASH / month for 2 months for tested, documented, deliverables.

Unused / Excess Funds

Surplus funds, if any, will be put towards bugfixes, updating documentation, closing out stale issues, and general cleanup of the SDK.