Pre Node.js `18.20.0`:
- `assert` is supported
Post Node.js `18.20.0`
- `assert` and `with` is supported.
Before https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/pull/30482 we kept
`asserts` in the JS code, Node.js was interpreting them. The `with`
keyword was not supported, this was what the PR was fixing.
After https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/pull/30482 Babel is
converting `assert` (deprecated) into `with` (successor) since we use
the `deprecatedAssertSyntax` option.
This means, that the minimum Node.js version we support in order to use
import attributes is now `18.20.0` where they added the `with` support.
This follows our principle of supporting only the latest minor release
for Node.js versions.
See here for the 18.20 changelog:
> #### Added support for import attributes
>
> Support has been added for import attributes, to replace the old
import
> assertions syntax. This will aid migration by making the new syntax
available
> across all currently supported Node.js release lines.
>
> This adds the `with` keyword which should be used in place of the
previous
> `assert` keyword, which will be removed in a future semver-major
Node.js
> release.
>
> For example,
>
> ```console
> import "foo" assert { ... }
> ```
>
> should be replaced with
>
> ```console
> import "foo" with { ... }
> ```
Fixes https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/pull/30482 - the tests
were a noop before, since they were tree-shaked by Babel.
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