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assert.ok needs to be the default export #153

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Thanks for making power-assert possible!

I'm working on a project that uses power-assert together with karma, mocha, rollup and coffeescript. To make it all work together, I needed to make rollup the only preprocessor to karma, use the coffeescript plugin for rollup, and add power-assert support through the babel preset, which in turn I enabled through the babel plugin for rollup. Since everything needs to run in the browser, I'm also using rollup-plugin-node-polyfills, which ends up providing its own version of the Node.js standard assert module.

With this setup, I ran into the following problem. Wherever assert(...) expressions in my test code are instrumented, it is replaced by complex powerAssert(...) expressions. This presumes that powerAssert is a function. However, the source module is assigning a non-callable object to module.exports as well as module.exports.default. Both of these should actually be the assert.ok function.

Using patch-package, I generated the following diff, which solved my problem. Note that this is a non-breaking change: module.exports and module.exports.default still have all the assert.* functions as properties.

diff --git a/node_modules/power-assert/index.js b/node_modules/power-assert/index.js
index acd429a..debd81e 100644
--- a/node_modules/power-assert/index.js
+++ b/node_modules/power-assert/index.js
@@ -62,6 +62,6 @@ function customize (customOptions) {
 }
 
 var defaultAssert = customize();
-define(defaultAssert, { '__esModule': true });
-defaultAssert['default'] = defaultAssert;
-module.exports = defaultAssert;
+define(defaultAssert, { '__esModule': true, 'default': defaultAssert.ok });
+define(defaultAssert.ok, defaultAssert);
+module.exports = defaultAssert.ok;

Note that I also replaced the direct assignment of the default property by a define call. I explained the reason for this in more detail in twada/power-assert-runtime#26.

This issue body was partially generated by patch-package.

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