Is it safe to import * as chains?

[holic]

I want to use @wagmi/chains as a peer dependency in my library, so that users can update at will to pick up new chains. As such, I'd like a safe/consistent way to import all chains in my library code, but I am hesitant about import * as chains in case @wagmi/chains ends up exporting more than just the list of chains (it already does this for the Chain type but that gets compiled out).

Is there a recommended way to get a list or object with all chains?

[tmm]

@wagmi/chains is only used for exporting Chains (and any required types, e.g. Chain) so other runtime code will not get pulled in when you do a namespace import. One thing you might want to check is tree-shakeability across popular bundlers for namespace imports.

[holic]

Ahh, I hadn't considered the tree-shakeability of this kind of import. Is that why ya'll removed defaultChains etc. from wagmi?

[tmm]

that's why we removed the chain object (e.g. chain.mainnet, chain.optimism)