Must say I’m quite excited about Snowpack (formerly known as @pika/web, which I covered here) which just got released. With Snowpack you can build modern web apps (with React, Vue, etc.) without a bundler (like Webpack, Parcel, Rollup). No more waiting for your bundler every time you hit save. Instead, changes are ready in the […]
Tag Archives: esmodules
Making Future Interfaces: ES Modules
Once again a highly entertaining video by Heydon Pickering. This time he’s tackling ES Modules: how and where (e.g. in which browsers) can you use them? 💁♂️ Even if you already know how to ship ES2015 JavaScript to browsers the video still is worth your time, as it’s very fun to watch!
Dynamically import ES modules with “dynamic import()”
One of the recent ECMAScript proposals that landed in Chrome 63 is dynamic import(): Dynamic import() introduces a new function-like form of import, which allows one to import on demand. It returns a promise for the module namespace object of the requested module, which is created after fetching, instantiating, and evaluating all of the module’s […]
Shipping ES6 ES2015 Modules to Browsers
UPDATE 2017.09.13: Deploying ES2015+ Code in Production Today also provides a good writeup on this subject. Good workflow fleshed out by Sam Thorogood on using ES2015/ES6 modules with browsers that support, whilst also keeping older browsers (that don’t support it) happy. The modules Let’s take these 2 simple modules for example: // main.js import {x} […]