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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, wasm
Domain
build-system, web-dev

Research direction

Start by examining the current UMD/CommonJS loadfile path and how the wasm file is packaged and located. The work is complete when sql.js can be imported as an ESM module and loads its wasm relative to the CDN URL, including the existing loading behavior where appropriate.

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Description

could you maybe build a esm version that can be imported and uses import.meta.url to load wasm files relative to the cdn somebody is using?

would just like to be able to do import it.
the hole umd commonjs loadfile is complicated.

Dominant language
JavaScript
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