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JavaScript module import()

Category
JavaScript
Type
New or changed feature
Status
Enabled by default (Chrome 63)
Intent stage
None

Summary

This JavaScript feature adds a "function-like" import() module loading syntactic form to JavaScript. The existing syntactic forms for importing modules are static declarations. However, it's also desirable to be able to dynamically load parts of a JavaScript application at runtime.

Standards & signals

Docs: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-dynamic-import

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