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by mrspeaker 2962 days ago
I'm unreasonably happy that Native Module support is now enabled by default in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Edge!

My side-projects and experiments (like the WebGL2 "minecraft-y" demo - https://mrspeaker.github.io/webgl2-voxels/) now work out of the box: no build system, no transpilers, no dot-files. Happy day!
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dtf 2962 days ago
Native modules have brought the fun and immediacy back to development for me. I never quite got used to the delay and boilerplate of build systems, despite their power.

But performance seems a little inconsistent in production. For iOS Safari in particular, I've had apps take over a minute to load via modules, versus seconds when bundled. So I stick to rollup for deploy (maybe http2 is supposed to fix this?)

(great demo btw!)

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samschooler 2962 days ago
Have you found any good tutorials that are good introductions on how to use native modules?
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ivanfon 2961 days ago
This Mozilla Hacks article[0] will tell you everything you need to know.

For something shorter, the import[1] and export[2] pages on MDN are great. These pages also have some useful related articles linked at the bottom.

Unrelated side note: MDN and Mozilla Hacks are doing an incredible job documenting web development and web standards.

[0] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/08/es6-in-depth-modules/

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

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