I use the flag –experimental-modules when running my Node application in order to use ES6 modules. However when I use this flag the metavariable __dirname is not available. Is there an alternative way to get the same string that is stored in __dirname that is compatible with this mode? 17 Answers 17
I’m not familiar with ECMAScript 6 yet. I’ve just cloned the React Starter Kit repo, which uses ES6 for application code. I was surprised to see that the linter is configured to forbid occurences of the use strict directive, which I thought was recommended in pre-ES6 JavaScript. So what’s the point? 1 Answer 1
I’ve been looking all over the Internet without a clear answer for this. Currently Node.js uses only CommonJS syntax to load modules, and if you really want to use the standard ECMAScript 2015 modules syntax, you either have to transpile it beforehand or use an external module loader at runtime. Currently I’m not too positive … Read more
I am trying to determine if there are any big differences between these two, other than being able to import with export default by just doing: import myItem from ‘myItem’; And using export const I can do: import { myItem } from ‘myItem’; Are there any differences and/or use cases other than this? 6 Answers … Read more
With ES6, I can import several exports from a file like this: import {ThingA, ThingB, ThingC} from ‘lib/things’; However, I like the organization of having one module per file. I end up with imports like this: import ThingA from ‘lib/things/ThingA’; import ThingB from ‘lib/things/ThingB’; import ThingC from ‘lib/things/ThingC’; I would love to be able to … Read more
This question already has answers here: Node.js – SyntaxError: Unexpected token import (16 answers) Closed 2 years ago. I’m trying to get the hang of ES6 imports in Node.js and am trying to use the syntax provided in this example: Cheatsheet Link I’m looking through the support table, but I was not able to find … Read more
Using ES6 modules, I know I can alias a named import: import { foo as bar } from ‘my-module’; And I know I can import a default import: import defaultMember from ‘my-module’; I’d like to alias a default import and I had thought the following would work: import defaultMember as alias from ‘my-module’; But that … Read more
