Will this project work in browser?

[QQCif]

Searched NPM and found this project. Tried in browser but gives me error about fs. Is this project for node only or I miss some settings...

[privateOmega]

@QQCif Currently this project was made targeting both Node and Frontend frameworks like React, Vue etc. But I will try to add direct browser support ASAP.

[privateOmega]

Working on this under feature/browser-example

[BikashKNayak]

I installed this in my react typescript application but gives node js related errors such as
Error: Can't resolve 'child_process' in \node_modules\libtidy-updated\node_modules\detect-libc\lib'

Is there any specific instructions that need to be followed to use this in React.

[anirudh-modi]

@privateOmega what will be the state of the branch for the browser support? Can we have this feature of browser support?

[josx]

The problem is:
https://github.com/gagern/node-libtidy dont support browser.

[privateOmega]

@BikashKNayak @anirudh-modi Sorry for the late reply, I haven't been following this project as much as I would like to due to other commitments. The problem with implementing this package in browser is exactly like @josx said, I started working on this project with an aim to support both ends of the stack but I had to import node-libtidy into the package which essentially cleans up HTML and only works in node environment. Since I have multiple people interested in this being implemented at browser, I will try to work on the package ASAP, removing node-libtidy dependency and supporting browsers. Anyone who is interested can also take this up.

[privateOmega]

Removed the libtidy dependency.

[josx]

great!

[itsmhuang]

Is there any update on how this can work with browser now?

[tenthousandfiRe]

I'm interested on how this can work with browser

[evrardts]

Same here, would love to see it working in the browser. Thanks a lot!

[redbrain]

+1 for browser support. I'll comment so I'm notified of progress.

[privateOmega]

Guys, I am delighted to know that people have noticed my very first OSS package, thanks for the following.
But I am extremely sorry that I haven't been able to spend some time to follow up on the issues created in this repo, being quite busy with my work.
All that apart I was able to spend some time to figure out the issue at hand finally and I have good news and bad news.

Good news - Figured out the problematic dependency and removed it in feature/browser-example branch, a minifier plugin called html-minifier was the culprit. And I tested this out in react environment and it seems to work well, except for some white-spacing issue.
Replacement is plain regex as of now. :/

Bad news - In browser, I am getting an error of an import from html-to-vdom is giving me undefined instead of the function it should be returning, but from some googling I am certain that it is due to a circular dependency, which I will try to resolve ASAP and this should be good to ship for browser usage as well.

Cheers

NB: People who want to try out this change in react, I guess for now you could do

Edit:
Some issue is there with this command npm install git://github.com/privateOmega/html-to-docx.git#feature/browser-example
Try yarn add git://github.com/privateOmega/html-to-docx.git#feature/browser-example