More Good News for Large-Scale JavaScript Apps

Importmap offers fresh opportunities for code organization

Joe Honton
Better Programming
Published in
7 min readMay 19, 2023

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Recursive circles within circles
Nested libraries from NPM and in-house projects don’t always play well together. Importmap helps everyone share the same sandbox.

JavaScript's module system underwent a revolution in 2015 with the standardization of the import and export keywords. But until now, the import process has been hampered by the single trunkline rule for relative pathnames. The long-awaited importmap tag provides the necessary flexibility…

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