Whether you’re building, testing and/or linting JavaScript, module resolution is always at the heart of everything. Despite its central place in our tools, not much time has been spent on making that aspect fast. With the changes discussed in this blog post tools can be sped up by as much as 30%.
  • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    The fragmentation of the JavaScript ecosystem doesn’t help either as there isn’t a single standard package for module resolution. Instead, there are multiple and they all share a different subset of features. That’s no surprise though as the list of features to support has grown over the years and there is no single library out there that supports them all at the time of this writing. Having a single library that everyone uses would make solving this problem once and for all for everyone a lot easier.

    This article was making me very happy until the author said this sad truth. A 30% speed boost just by optimizing the module resolution sounds based as fuck, but the javascript ecosystem being what it is doesn’t give me much hope I’ll ever see it in the near future, if at all.