promise/avoid-new: do we really want to enforce node's util.promisify in the browser?

[darkbasic]

util.promisify belongs to node.js, do we really want to enforce it for browsers as well?

[mightyiam]

Thank you for bringing this up, @darkbasic.

I know it is provided by Node.js and not available in browsers. But many general JS APIs are not available in browsers. That's how we build for the browser, right? We add whatever seems useful.

util.promisify seems like a generally useful JS utility.

Is it difficult to include in the browser?

[darkbasic]

Better, but still more than two years without a single commit/release.

[mightyiam]

Possibly because it's "done"?

[darkbasic]

I didn't run an npm audit but I'm always skeptical of packages that don't update dependencies on a regular basis. Chances are one of its dependencies might contain some sort of security vulnerability.

[mightyiam]

For what it's worth, it has only dev deps.

[darkbasic]

Good, that makes it a suitable alternative.