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proposal-top-level-await reviews and mentions

• Node.js and esbuild: beware of mixing cjs and esm
  2 projects | dev.to | 13 Dec 2024

  When using --bundle, set --format to cjs. This will work in all cases except for esm modules with top-level await.

• Node.js: A brief history of cjs, bundlers, and esm
  9 projects | dev.to | 12 Dec 2024

  esm defines new keywords and syntax for exporting and importing members as well as introduces new concepts like default export. Over time, esm modules gained new capabilities like dynamic import() and top-level await. For example:

• Unveiling Breakthroughs Found In The State Of JS 2022 Survey
  5 projects | dev.to | 12 Jan 2023

  For more info about this feature, you can refer to the official proposal repo.

• Write program in assembly, decompile to TypeScript, convert to JavaScript, run in Node
  2 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 24 Jul 2022

  This one is Stage 4 (complete)

• Open Source Adventures: Episode 29: Using D3 with old school tooling to visualize Russian Tank Losses
  1 project | dev.to | 5 Apr 2022

  But browsers don't support top-level await yet. So we need to put it all inside as async function.

• Configuring CommonJS & ES Modules for Node.js
  6 projects | dev.to | 3 Jan 2022

  Note that ESM is not “backwards” compatible with CJS: a CJS module cannot require() an ES Module; it is possible to use a dynamic import (await import()), but this is likely not what consumers expect (and, unlike ESM, CJS does not support Top-Level Await).

• ES2022 Preview: 10 Exciting JavaScript Language Features From 2021
  4 projects | dev.to | 30 Dec 2021

  top-level await feature for ES modules

• How to save fetch JSON result to global variable?
  1 project | /r/learnjavascript | 13 Oct 2021

  That said, ES2022 does introduce a top-level await that works in the top level scope, but only in modules, not global scope. So if in a module this could work:

• Node v14.8+: Top Level Async Await
  1 project | dev.to | 9 Jun 2021

  With the latest node version(s) (v14.8+), we should be able to rewrite the above code to something like this. proposal-top-level-await

• What is a practical example of using a Promise? These Youtube tutorials are bogus
  1 project | /r/learnjavascript | 10 May 2021

  Now a days, you'll likely mostly use async/await. The few cases where you'll need the Promise API (then()'s etc.) is when you're outside of an async function. With the new top-level await feature coming to modules, you wouldn't even need it outside of async functions in module code which will make its usage even less common.

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