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[chriscoyier]

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[cedx]

The famous Chris Coyier is looking at my project !!! I am flattered.
As you've seen, this project is currently in an unstable state :

• the npm install does not work because the project is being ported to ES modules, but I've not found the time to finish.
• the CDN build does not work because the online documentation refers to the next version... which was never released 😞

But I have good news: I decided to work on it again! Give me a few days to fix all these issues.

[cedx]

It took a looooooonnnnnng time (I'm a very busy person)... but all issues were finally resolved in the latest release (v14.0.0). Beware: some breaking changes were introduced.

Dropped the browser client

Akismet has never supported CORS headers, and it looks like it will not change. So using the browser client needed a complicated setup (i.e. use an intermediate proxy server). It was also a bit hard to maintain an isomorphic package.
Now, you can only use this package in a Node.js application. 😢

Using ECMAScript modules

This is a major change: to consume this package, you need a recent Node.js runtime. Either version 13, or version 12 with the --experimental-modules flag enabled.

Changed the return type of the Client.checkComment() method

Previously, this method returned a boolean (i.e. the comment is a spam... or not). Now, it returns a CheckResult value.
The Akismet API sometimes includes a X-akismet-pro-tip HTTP header telling if a comment is "pervasive" spam and can be safely discarded. The new method implementation allows to handle this scenario.