es-module-shims
nx
es-module-shims | nx | |
---|---|---|
13 | 347 | |
1,488 | 22,188 | |
- | 2.3% | |
6.5 | 10.0 | |
14 days ago | 3 days ago | |
JavaScript | TypeScript | |
MIT License | MIT License |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
es-module-shims
-
⏰ It’s time to talk about Import Map, Micro Frontend, and Nx Monorepo
For full compatibility and extra features, we usually use the library es-module-shims.
-
JavaScript import maps are now supported cross-browser
You can polyfill for unsupported browsers, it works surprisingly well: https://github.com/guybedford/es-module-shims
-
Modern SPAs without bundlers, CDNs, or Node.js
https://github.com/guybedford/es-module-shims has a polyfill. (But it is fairly large: 53KB raw, 15KB gzipped, 32KB minified, 11KB minified+gzipped. It’s providing a lot of likely-unnecessary functionality. I’d prefer a stripped-down polyfill that can also be lazily-loaded, controlled by a snippet of at most a few hundred bytes that you can drop into the document, only loading the polyfill in the uncommon case that it’s needed—like how five years ago as part of modernising some of the code of Fastmail’s webmail, I had it fetch and execute core-js before loading the rest iff !Object.values (choosing that as a convenient baseline), so that the cost to new browsers of supporting old browsers was a single trivial branch, and maybe fifty bytes in added payload.)
- Writing JavaScript without a build system
-
Modern SPAs without bundlers, CDNs, or NodeJS
If we call the shim a framework, would you be ok with it then?
-
Import maps 101
If you want import maps to be supported in any browser, there is an ES Module Shims polyfill which is compatible with any browser that has baseline ES Module Support (i.e. Edge 17+, Firefox 60+, Safari 10.1+, and Chrome 61+).
-
Everything You Need to Know About JavaScript Import Maps
An example of a polyfill that can be used is the ES Module Shims polyfill that adds support for import maps and other new module features to any browser with baseline support for ES modules (about 94% of browsers). All you need to do is include the es-module-shim script in your HTML file before your import map script:
-
How bad is it to not use a bundler?
i often use es-module-shims so i can load npm packages in browsers without a bundler 😎
-
Fresh – The next-gen web framework
I explored using client-side service workers for build-less deployment workflows a while back, but the blocker was the initial visit when the service worker hasn't been installed yet. Ended up using es-module-shim's fetch hook (https://github.com/guybedford/es-module-shims#fetch-hook) instead, which worked quite well.
I kept the demo repo around here, in case it's helpful to anyone: https://github.com/lewisl9029/buildless-hot-reload-demo.
The repo itself is quite out of date at this point, but my current project, Reflame, is essentially the spiritual successor: https://reflame.app/
Reflame has the same ideals of achieving the developer experience I've always wanted for building client rendered React apps:
- instant production deployments (usually <200ms)
- instant preview environments that match production in pretty much every imaginable way (including the URL), that can also be flipped into development mode for fast-refresh (for the seamless feedback loop we're used to in local dev) and dev-mode dependencies (for better error messaging, etc)
- close-to-instant browser tests (1-3 seconds) that enable image snapshot comparisons that run with maximum parallelism and only rerun when their dependency graphs change
-
Do you use Import-Map for your client-side ESM?
The problem of course is that browser-support for Import Maps is sadly lacking (only Chrome/Chromium-based at time of writing). There are tricks/shims to get around this, like ES-Module-Shims. I find these approaches to be a little too intrusive, personally.
nx
-
👥 Reproducible Nx Workspace with HugeNx’s Conventions
With Nx, you can use the list of presets, but it is hardcoded. There is some flexibility for each with some options, but not enough to generate a more advanced workspace.
-
🍒 Cherry-Picked Nx v18.3 Updates
One notable feature is the ability to remember selected tabs. When you select a specific tab on a page, all other tabs on the page with the same name will also be selected. This selection will persist during your next visit to nx.dev.
-
Pitfalls of Deploying Hono Js App on Vercel
Hono does have a template application for Vercel, but in my case, my requirements were different (aren't they always 😅). I was working in a monorepo (using nx) because I wanted to manage my libs, tests, and examples all together in a single place, instead of having different repos.
- 🍒 Cherry-Picked Nx v18.1 Updates
-
How to setup semantic release with GitHub Actions.
Recently, My coworker is using Nx to automate his workflow, including automated release using semantic version. I found this method quite useful, so I want to re-implement on single GitHub repositories (without Nx).
-
🩹 Nx Crystal Plugin Picking the Essentials
I started a discussion on GitHub concerning that subject: Design Nx Plugin Project Crystal
-
Things I learned while building projects with NX
Nx
- Episode 24/09: Testing without TestBed, SSR & Hydration
-
Announcing AnalogJS 1.0 🚀
We are looking for companies to partner with on the Analog project to support development of the project. Thanks to Snyder Technologies for being an early adopter and promoter of Analog, Nx for joining us as a sponsor, House of Angular, and many other backers of the project.
-
Storybook 8
Additionally, thank you to all our community launch partners across the frontend ecosystem for helping us bring Storybook 8 to the world! Thanks to Chromatic, Figma, ViteConf, Omlet, DivRiots, story.to.design, StackBlitz, UXpin, Nx, Mock Service Worker, Anima, Zeplin, zeroheight, kickstartDS, and Kendo UI.
What are some alternatives?
import-maps - How to control the behavior of JavaScript imports
turborepo - Incremental bundler and build system optimized for JavaScript and TypeScript, written in Rust – including Turborepo and Turbopack. [Moved to: https://github.com/vercel/turbo]
hyperscript - Create HyperText with JavaScript.
single-spa - The router for easy microfrontends
Rust Language Server - Repository for the Rust Language Server (aka RLS)
vite - Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!
stampino-element
lerna - :dragon: Lerna is a fast, modern build system for managing and publishing multiple JavaScript/TypeScript packages from the same repository.
import-remap - Rewrite ES module import specifiers using an import-map.
create-react-app - Set up a modern web app by running one command.
mercury - A truly modular frontend framework
pnpm - Fast, disk space efficient package manager