esm

Hot-reloading and ESM

While building Gestalt , I realized that many web frameworks don’t move away from CommonJS because their usage of modules in ESM would lead to a slower hot-reloading experience. This is primarily due to how module graphs are loaded with ESM…

Javascript, ESM, and tools

I'm using Javascript, Typescript, and Node a lot these days as part of my work at Shopify and Gestalt and I'm really loving it. In particular, its module system because it allows extensibility in ways it'd be more challenging with compiled…