[bartlomieju]

That's not really what's happening behind the scenes.

We are consuming sources as they are provided in npm using "compat layer" that is part of Deno's standard library. We had to provide special module resolution, but besides polyfill for built-in Node APIs, it works very similar to how Node consumes these packages.

[brundolf]

Huh I didn't know about compatibility mode; sounds like a lot of the work had already been done then

[bartlomieju]

Yes, this effort started years ago and was ramped up significantly in recent months.