[lelanthran]

Ah, I see what you mean. You were talking about using imports recursively.

I use fetch instead of imports for web components because I have a web component that does client-side includes, and it's literally easier to do client-side includes in a performance manner than anything else, including the recursive case.

[troupo]

So we're back to my original comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131513

Yes you can invent all kinds of workarounds for their core design. Re-implementing imports like you do. Or bundling, like everyone does and something that even lit recommends: https://lit.dev/docs/tools/production/

[lelanthran]

> So we're back to my original comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131513

And we're back to my original comment - imports get served from the local cache, so a bit of a nothing-burger in the great scheme of things.

[troupo]

Except cache is not infinite, it is routinely expunged and re-fetched.

The "nothing burger" is so significant that even projects whose stance is "web components are the end all be all of web development" like lit recommend bundling.