How to use native ES modules

This article will present examples of ECMAScript (ES) modules—what you can achieve with them and where you will hit some limitations. All browsers released after May 2018 support ES modules, so you can assume they are safe to use in most cases. sour...

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Georg Jähnig

Dec 22, 2021

Thanks for your informative overview! Isn't one argument against using those "modules" the fact that you end up having too many HTTP requests (one for each JS file), thus a longer initial loading time? I also started with first using them in my Trovu, but then ended up using the Rollup bundler, to have only one JS file being requested.

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Marcin Wosinek

JavaScript developer

Dec 23, 2021

Good point! That's the biggest reason to add bundlers to the mix. You want to use ES modules syntax but limit HTTP requests on the production.

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