It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
In this week’s roundup, a handy bookmarklet for inspecting typography, using await to tinker with how JavaScript modules import one another, plus Facebook’s in-app browser is only posing as one. Let’s get into the news!… Read article “Weekly Platform News: Text Spacing Bookmarklet, Top-Level Await, New AMP Loading Indicator”
Nicholas Zakas:
… Read article “ES6 module loading: More complicated than you think”The differences between scripts and modules are subtle enough that it’s hard for developers to understand the restriction of declaring what a JavaScript file represents ahead of time. My hope is that this post clarifies some of the reasons why it’s not possible to autodetect modules from inspecting the source code and why tools such as ESLint ask you to specify the file type before executing. There will be a point in the future where ES6 modules are