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Feature request: Resolve bare module specifiers in JS modules

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start with the referenced implementation in packages/javascript/src/lib/serve.ts, then locate the dev server’s request or middleware entry point. The issue names no repository test; done means bare module specifiers resolve and load correctly in browsers.

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Description

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This dev server would be a lot more useful for projects with client-side JS if it could resolve bare module specifiers so that they load correctly in browsers.

It's not too terribly complicated to do this with middleware and a dependency on something like enhanced-resolve. Here's a single-file implementation in my own server framework that could be adopted: https://github.com/justinfagnani/zipadee/blob/main/packages/javascript/src/lib/serve.ts

Dominant language
JavaScript
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109
Forks
19
Avg merge
6d 3h
Merged PRs (30d)
2

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