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Sep 1, 2023 1 hr 5 min

Modernizing packages to ESM (JS Party #290)

from JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Mark Erikson (web dev professor/historian, OSS Maintainer & engineer at Replay) joins us to talk about the shift from CommonJS to ESM. We discuss the history of module patterns in JS and the grueling effort to push the world's biggest developer ecosystem forward. Get ready to go to school kids, this one's deep!

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Modernizing packages to ESM (JS Party #290)

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  1. 0:00 It's party time, y'all
  2. 0:56 Welcoming back Mark
  3. 3:28 A history lesson
  4. 10:36 UMDs were hot ...
  5. 11:49 History continued
  6. 16:59 Enter TypeScript
  7. 21:28 Publish as a Service
  8. 22:51 Common pain points
  9. 31:30 Sponsor: Changelog News
  10. 32:42 Recapping the post
  11. 44:22 Running multiple tests
  12. 51:51 We need standards
  13. 59:07 Parting thoughts
  14. 1:03:03 Closing time
  15. 1:04:06 Next up on the pod (Changelog++!)

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