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by CGamesPlay 1586 days ago
> ES imports on the web have a lot of restrictions around where they can be placed in code. Trying to pass a variable in for the path results in a syntax error.

I'm referring to dynamic imports, which do not have any compunctions around dynamic strings being used to import modules. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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danShumway 1586 days ago
Right, sorry. My understanding was that dynamic imports were a separate conversation, and they're not part of this effort at the very least: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/36328#issuecomment-73590...

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That being said, yes, if there are plans to support dynamic imports, then literally all of the reassurances people have been giving me about pinning and fetching dependencies ahead of time and having tools to find out-of-date dependencies -- none of that works at all if dynamic imports are supported, you're completely correct.

Deno does support dynamic imports, but I have always understood that they use a separate system and are handled/installed differently? I might be wrong about that though, I haven't worked with Deno closely enough to be really confident about its internals.

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