The New Import Map Standard

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the fact that import maps are in Safari Technical preview, and what that means for web developers.

Show Notes

• 00:26 Welcome
• 02:16 Import maps just dropped
• 04:09 Which browsers support it?
• 06:01 What is a map?
• 06:40 How does the syntax work?
• 09:35 What about dependency resolution?
• 10:25 What about bundlers?
• 13:17 How does this work with Deno?
• Deno — A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript
• Import Maps | Manual | Deno
• whatwg/fs · Issue #5 · wintercg/proposal-common-minimum-api
• 20:12 What about with node?
• Support import maps and bare import specifiers · Issue #43326 · microsoft/TypeScript
• Policies | Node.js v17.9.1 Documentation
• 21:22 What about Typescript?
• 22:43 Downsides to import maps

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