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Former home of import maps (now merged into HTML)

23 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 3 stories, 20 comments · first 2019-02-25 · latest 2024-06-20

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  1. …modules still are not a ubiquitous feature of the core web & JavaScript ecosystems. 9 years latter. https://github.com/WICG/import-maps/issues/2 It's been hard being a webdevs, when the future remains so partially implemented. The…
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2024-06-20 · in NPM and NodeJS should do more to make ES Modules easy to use
  2. …and it still doesn't work in workers, which leaves us infuriatingly shirt of where the past was. https://github.com/WICG/import-maps/issues/2
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2024-02-25 · in It is hard to avoid JavaScript
  3. …news? Oh import-maps only works for the simplest case. Doesn't work in webworkers/service workers. https://github.com/WICG/import-maps/issues/2 The point is that single page apps almost always are bundled together, as using CDNs hasn't…
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2024-01-26 · in 'Mother of all breaches' data leak reveals 26B account stolen records
  4. …unbundling more viable, but that's still long suffering (ex: import-maps don't work for workers, https://github.com/WICG/import-maps/issues/2 ), and now that the http cache doesn't work cross-site many of the possible re-use upsides are…
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2024-01-09 · in Missing the Point of WebAssembly
  5. …modules in web workers: there's no import-map support or spec! Issue #2 in import maps... 2. https://github.com/WICG/import-maps/issues/2
    comment by rektide · 2023-06-30 · in CommonJS is hurting JavaScript
  6. But not in Workers/worklets. https://github.com/WICG/import-maps/issues/2 ESM was specced out in 2015. It hurts so bad that we are in 2023 & using modules in a modular way is still incredibly ill supported in the web ecosystem. :(
    comment by rektide · 2023-05-03 · in JavaScript import maps are now supported cross-browser
  7. …of github issues and no solution. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres... https://github.com/WICG/import-maps/issues/221 https://github.com/WICG/import-maps/issues/223
    comment by cientifico · 2023-05-03 · in JavaScript import maps are now supported cross-browser
  8. …totally shit out of luck in spite of some very simple straightforward suggested paths forward. https://github.com/WICG/import-maps/issues/2 I think Deno is making pretty good tradeoffs along the way here. This looks like package.json at…
    comment by rektide · 2023-03-20 · in Why we added package.json support to Deno
  9. …that this breaks with web standards, but apparently it's being proposed as a standard feature: https://github.com/WICG/import-maps Interesting!
    comment by brundolf · 2022-11-14 · in Deno 1.28: Featuring 1.3M New Modules
  10. …in to Safari as it has already landed in webkit: * https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220823 * https://github.com/WICG/import-maps/blob/main/README.md
    comment by Fudgel · 2022-10-24 · in WebKit Features in Safari 16.1
  11. Rather than importing and re-exporting dependencies, Deno supports import maps: https://github.com/WICG/import-maps https://deno.land/manual@v1.20.1/linking_to_external_code/im...
    comment by yesbabyyes · 2022-03-17 · in Deno Is Webby
  12. > I doubt browsers are smart enough to bulk fetch multiple unpkg dependencies in one request. https://github.com/WICG/import-maps/issues/209
    comment by qvq · 2021-09-18 · in You may not need Moment.js
  13. …in a non-browser environment? I get WHATWG streams, esm, fetch and WebCrypro though. - 1: https://github.com/WICG/import-maps
    comment by timdaub · 2021-08-23 · in Deno on MDN
  14. …[1] has support for scoping, but I didn't see a way to integrate that with the Deno loader. [1] https://github.com/WICG/import-maps#scoping-examples
    comment by sujayakar · 2021-04-13 · in Deno 1.9
  15. …seems straightforward & sensible, makes it easy to look at the dom & grok how things happen. [1] https://github.com/WICG/import-maps [2] https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/831 [3] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?…
    comment by rektide · 2021-02-11 · in The web didn't change; you did
  16. …the same types of problems as Node. [1] https://blog.asana.com/2020/01/typescript-quirks/ [2] https://github.com/WICG/import-maps/issues/60
    comment by dvt · 2020-06-04 · in What the Hell Is a Deno?
  17. I believe the long term solution to the issues you raised is import maps: https://github.com/WICG/import-maps It's an upcoming feature on the browser standards track gaining a lot of traction (deno already supports it), and offers users a…
    comment by lewisl9029 · 2020-05-14 · in Deno 1.0
  18. …of just plain files with a bundled version of lit, you still need to rewrite import paths, until https://github.com/WICG/import-maps becomes a thing at least. I wrote a tiny dev server that does that: https://github.com/myfreeweb/es-module-…
    comment by floatboth · 2019-05-19 · in Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)
  19. https://github.com/WICG/import-maps#scoping-examples
    comment by philipwalton · 2019-03-12 · in KV Storage, the Web's First Built-In Module
  20. …viable to not bundle or transpile for local development and only do so for production builds. 1: https://github.com/WICG/import-maps
    comment by bwindels · 2019-02-25 · in Alternatives to JSX