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Documentation about polyfills

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript

Research direction

Start by reviewing the current package description and any browser usage documentation; no file or test is named in the issue. Done means the documentation clearly states whether browser users need polyfills such as browserify and what tweaks are required.

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Description

Jusst wondering, if it is worth putting some sort of documentation about the need for polyfills (like browserify).

It happened to us that we thought we could use this library out-of-the-box (given that the description did not specify otherwise). But it is not really true for browsers, right? There are a few tweaks to implement

Dominant language
JavaScript
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Forks
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