[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #40834: Introduce a JS module pattern to WordPress

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#40834: Introduce a JS module pattern to WordPress
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 Reporter:  omarreiss    |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General      |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:
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Comment (by jhabdas):

 My .02 is that WordPress already has a great module system whereby users
 can enqueue anything they want. I've personally worked on both enterprise
 React projects and have published React Native to iOS, both of which
 included extensive use of Webpack. My personal experience as a developer
 was not a happy one.

 Webpack is very complex IMO, and is a slippery slope WRT the involvement
 of Babel and friends. If the goal is to provide more modularity in the
 core to start moving towards ES6 I don't see why you'd need a bundler to
 do that when browsers will be able to support ES6 modules natively
 (whereas Node will not anytime soon, and the Node EPS will show the gory
 tale).

 UMD already provides quite a bit of bloat. If you skip straight to ES6 you
 can use the browser as your REPL and leverage advanced loading techniques
 coming such as WHATWG Dynamic Imports to leapfrog beyond many emerging
 frameworks. Building on Node is not easy. Just ask the folks from Ghost
 Foundation.

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