The New Import Map Standard

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

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🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the fact that import maps are in Safari Technical preview, and what that means for web developers. Show Notes 00:26 Welcome 02:16 Import maps just dropped 04:09 Which browsers support it? 06:01 What is a map? 06:40 How does the syntax work? 09:35 What about dependency resolution? 10:25 What about bundlers? 13:17 How does this work with Deno? Deno — A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript Import Maps | Manual | Deno whatwg/fs · Issue #5 · wintercg/proposal-common-minimum-api 20:12 What about with node? Support import maps and bare import specifiers · Issue #43326 · microsoft/TypeScript Policies | Node.js v17.9.1 Documentation 21:22 What about Typescript? 22:43 Downsides to import maps Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0	Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready! To stuff your face with
0:07.0	JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflow! Break dancing! Soft skills!
0:12.0	Web development! The hastiest! The craziest! The tastiest! Web development
0:16.0	treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes! Barakuda! Boss!
0:21.0	And Scotel Torologo Tolinsky!
0:26.0	Welcome to syntax on this Monday hasty treats. We're going to be talking about a
0:33.0	feature that just arrived in pretty much the last of the browsers that it needed to
0:38.0	arrive in and we're going to be talking about import maps. This may be
0:42.0	something that you've seen around or heard around or maybe you've never heard about
0:45.0	it, but it is, you know, it's related to the new JavaScript ESM syntax.
0:51.0	So we're going to be talking all about what import maps are and more.
0:55.0	My name is Scott Tolinsky. I'm a developer from Denver with me as always as
0:59.0	Wes, the hot tips boss. Yeah, I just got this news like neon. It's not neon
1:06.0	with LED, but looks like neon sign in my office. And it's so cool. I'm so happy
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1:34.0	that light fixtures are just garbage now whenever they whenever they die,
1:40.0	right? Like you can't replace a light bulb. They're just noticeable solder. Yeah.
1:44.0	Yeah. I'll take it for the energy savings and the ability to literally
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