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joepie91 / es-modules-are-terrible-actually.md
Last active December 5, 2025 19:35
ES Modules are terrible, actually

ES Modules are terrible, actually

This post was adapted from an earlier Twitter thread.

It's incredible how many collective developer hours have been wasted on pushing through the turd that is ES Modules (often mistakenly called "ES6 Modules"). Causing a big ecosystem divide and massive tooling support issues, for... well, no reason, really. There are no actual advantages to it. At all.

It looks shiny and new and some libraries use it in their documentation without any explanation, so people assume that it's the new thing that must be used. And then I end up having to explain to them why, unlike CommonJS, it doesn't actually work everywhere yet, and may never do so. For example, you can't import ESM modules from a CommonJS file! (Update: I've released a module that works around this issue.)

And then there's Rollup, which apparently requires ESM to be u

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bkeating / graphiql-dark-mode.css
Last active September 24, 2024 19:10
GraphiQL One Dark Alt (Dark Mode) theme by Ben Keating
<style>
/* GraphiQL One Dark Alt (Dark Mode) theme by Ben Keating[1]
* Colors taken from Atom's One Dark theme[2]. Add this file to the end of
* your <head> block[3] to override built-in default styling.
*
* [1]. https://twitter.com/flowpoke
* [2]. https://github.com/atom/atom/tree/master/packages/one-dark-ui
* [3]. e.g. `.../site-packages/graphene_django/templates/graphene/graphiql.html`
*/
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biilmann / readme.md
Created October 14, 2015 22:07
Quick Guide to Private NPM Modules on Netlify

Using NPM Private Modules on Netlify

Create a .npmrc file for your project like this:

//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=${NPM_TOKEN}

Then find your token inside the ~/.npmrc file in your home folder and set it as an NPM_TOKEN environment variable through netlify's admin UI.