BENEFITS.md

Benefits

• Dead-simple installation and setup: npm install --save reify, require("reify")
• Works with every version of Node.
• Put import and export statements anywhere you like.
  • They're just statements.
  • If you have a philosophical preference for restricting them to the top-level, there are plenty of ways to enforce that.
  • This library doesn't limit you either way.
• Imported symbols are just normal variables.
  • Debuggers and dev tools display the symbols as you wrote them, unmangled by a transpiler.
  • Not having to rename variables references leads to much faster compilation.
  • Variables are confined to the scope where they were imported.
  • import statements work in the Node REPL.
• Any existing module or package can be imported.
  • Babel's interopRequire{Default,Wildcard} logic is captured by Module.prototype.getExportByName.
• Does not interfere with existing require.extensions hooks.
• Much simpler transform implementation as compared with other ECMASCript module compilers.
  • import statements become calls to module.importSync(id, setters)
  • export statements become assignments to the exports object.
  • The compiler doesn't have to parse the entire file to find import and export statements.
• Line numbers are strictly preserved.
  • No hoisting of import statements.
  • All import and export statements are compiled in-place.
• No need for Object.defineProperty-style getters to support export * from "...".
• The module.importSync(id, setters) API is human-writable, too, if you want to implement custom update logic.
• Generated code is statically analyzable, since the exports object is not exposed.