a pure es module import would be fantastic

I frequently like to use dat.gui in small experiments on my local machine. I’d love to not need to have a package manager to install/build/configure dat.gui for these fast experiments.

Here is how I’d like to use dat.gui:

<script type="module">
    import dat from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/dataarts/dat.gui@0.7.7/src/dat/index.js'

    const obj = { x: 40, y: 100 }

    const gui = new dat.GUI()
    gui.add(obj, 'x')
    gui.add(obj, 'y') 
</script>

Right now this snippet won’t work because the source code doesn’t include the file extension when it imports modules (.js)

This would be really amazing for prototyping, just being able to wire up this usage of dat.gui without all the ceremony of needing node, npm, bundling tools, bundling config, etc.

[mreinstein]

I’d prefer not to drop that backward-compatibility without a compelling reason.

Yeah I’m not asking anyone to drop backwards compatibility. 😃 I’m just asking if we could provide a “pure” es modules based thing alongside all of our existing stuff, which would enable me to drop node/npm/package.json/build tools/legacy module formats, etc.

with the advent of good browser support + deno, now seems like a prime time to start re-evaluating the way we’ve been doing things for the last decade of javascript.

[mreinstein]

regarding the original question of the issue, we do provide a “pure ES module import” as explained above

sounds reasonable, thanks for your time!