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NPM and NodeJS should do more to make ES Modules easy to use
Coming back to JavaScript and TypeScript after a few years neck deep in Python and Hack, I kept hitting a number of new, cryptic errors when running NodeJS code in my dev environment:
Coming back to JavaScript and TypeScript after a few years neck deep in Python and Hack, I kept hitting a number of new, cryptic errors when running NodeJS code in my dev environment: A number of solutions sprang up around ways to declare and load modules: IIFEs, LabJS, AMD, require.js, TypeScript namespaces, and more. We should upgrade the most common libraries used by the community to ES Modules, either manually or through automated pull requests (this feels like something that can be semi-automated).
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