Message from JavaScript discussions
November 2017
— I'm not saying it will be less code
I'm just saying that NOT using a module system (until imports are finalized) in browsers is a vulnerability
— For instance:
script1.js:var i = 4;
script2.js:
var arr = [];
arr.length = i;
i is a dependency of script2.js
— Yeah
— This is without a module system
— Introducing a direct implicit dependency
— Using dependencies as arguments is much better
— Personally for my own projects, I just use GNU Make
— Easy enough to cat modules into an IIFE and then spit out a single file, uses both Bash and Make's own language
— Https://github.com/Floofies/Differentia.js/blob/master/makefile
— There's the makefile for one of them
— It's actually quite funny haha, I crammed testing, linting, minifying etc... into a single file like that. It just snags NPM packages and Github repos into the build directory and uses them locally