On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <[email protected]> wrote: > We've thought a lot about compile-to-JS languages, and a bunch of the > features of the module loader system are there specifically to support > these languages. You can build a loader that uses the `translate` > hook to perform arbitrary translation, such as running the > CoffeeScript compiler, before actually executing the code. So you'll > be able to write something like this: > > let CL = new CoffeeScriptLoader(); > CL.load("code/something.coffee", function(m) { ... });
Will heterogenous transpiling in a web app be supported? Can a JS module depend on a CoffeeScript file, and vice versa? What about a JS module depending on a CoffeeScript and text resource? What would that look like? For instance, it is common in requirejs projects to use coffeescript and text resources via the loader plugin system. While the text plugin is fairly simple, it can be thought of as a transpiler, converting text files to module values that are JS strings. It could also be "text template" transpiler that converts the text to a JS function, which when given data produces a custom HTML string. For requirejs/AMD systems, the transpiler handler is part of the module ID. This means that nested dependencies can use a transpiler without the top level application developer needing to map out what loader transpilers are in play and somehow configure transpiler capabilities at the top level before starting main module loading. It also makes it clear which transpiler should be used for a given module dependency. Each module gets to choose the type of transpiler: for a given .html file, one module may want to use a text template transpiler where another module may just want a raw text-to-string transpiler. Both of those modules can be used in the same project as nested dependencies without the end developer needing to wire them up at the top level. James _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
