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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
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