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Thom2000

Interesting. I've never seen the import-with syntax, though and it's hard to find any documentation on it. Is this a syntax extension?

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It’s been introduced as part of ecmascript 2026 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

It first started as an assert statement[0] for those who may have seen that, these type statements are an evolution out of that proposal.

I do wonder if this makes the importable gets (via type: json) a reality like assert was going to.

[0]: https://v8.dev/features/import-assertions

> I do wonder if this makes the importable gets (via type: json) a reality like assert was going to.

Yes, the JSON modules proposal is finished.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-json-modules

https://caniuse.com/mdn-javascript_statements_import_import_...

An entire class fetch requests will go away with importable gets. I am excited for this

In node you could always require("food.json")

Not what I am talking about though.

I’m talking about in place of a fetch call, you could simply import a json response from an endpoint, there by bypassing the need to call fetch, and you’ll get the response as if it’s imported.

It won’t replace all GET calls certainly but I can think of quite a few first load ones that can simply be import statements once this happens

Ohh right. That makes sense.

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