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Prefer `import` over `require`

See original GitHub issue

I recommend sticking with import rather than require as much as possible to keep the types.

require does have it’s place for sure though. Such as, guarding with an if statement or intentionally dodging bad types in a 3rd party lib. Unlike require, import gets hoisted so it’s not as flexible, but checks that huge static analysis checkbox!

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments:7 (6 by maintainers)

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skellockcommented, Jan 11, 2018

We’ve spent the last 10 years (and probably the next 5) reinventing something that’s been solved for 30 years. Static & dynamic library loading.

I love learning, so I’m not bitter. I’m just unproductive.

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infinitered-circlecicommented, Dec 7, 2018

🎉 This issue has been resolved in version 0.22.1 🎉

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