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The Globus SDK for JavaScript provides first class TypeScript support and makes it easy to call Globus services using idiomatic JavaScript APIs to build Node.js and web applications.
If you are not using Typescript, you can install the SDK with the following command:
npm install @globus/sdk@globus/sdk is written in Typescript and includes type definitions for its internal types, Globus platform types (i.e., API responses) are provided by the @globus/types package and must be installed separately.
npm install @globus/sdk @globus/typesWe aim to support all Active LTS Node.js releases. We intend to support all Maintenance LTS versions until their official end-of-life. Removal of support for a Node.js version will be considered a breaking change and result in a major version bump of the SDK.
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Officially, the SDK supports widely adopted evergreen browsers: Edge, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. Our bundled browser distributions target ECMAScript 2015 (ES6), which has broader browser support but may not be explicitly evaluated.
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We distribute our package targeting three different module systems: ESM, CommonJS, and UMD.
The ESM distribution is the module export of the package.
import { transfer } from '@globus/sdk';
import { GCS } from '@globus/sdk/constants';The CommonJS distribution is the main export of the package. It is intended for use in Node.js applications and environments that support the require statement.
const { transfer } = require('@globus/sdk');You can also explicitly use the cjs namespace to import a CommonJS entrypoint.
const transfer = require('@globus/sdk/cjs').transfer;
// or, import { transfer } from '@globus/sdk/cjs';The UMD distribution is provided for use in web applications and environments that do not support ESM or CommonJS. Referencing the UMD distribution as a <script> tag will provide a global variable globus that contains all default exports from the package.
<script src="https://unpkg.com/@globus/sdk/dist/umd/globus.production.js"></script>Currently, the UMD distribution only provides the default entrypoint for the package.