Is it possible to import third-party libraries in extensions?

[jfrancis (Jason Francis)]

See this reply, it may be of interest:

MQTT module for gjs?

Is it possible for a gjs app to somehow use modules normally distributed through npm? Yes with a bit of effort depending on what you are trying to use. If it’s a pure ES module and doesn’t depend on anything extraneous to gjs - you can import it as is from node_modules. If it depends on globals that gjs doesn’t support, you will need to polyfill them. For example setTimeout, atob, websocket, fetch … I did some (minimal) work there in https://github.com/sonnyp/troll - check older revisions f…