Sigh... Another post like this. Sure, it works well enough for the example shown in the article, but won't work well beyond this. Bundlers, package managers and other tools were created to address problems people saw in medium-large projects for websites with a lot of traffic. And as soon as the project has dozens of files and even just two or three external libraries, this becomes unmaintainable. Not to mention minimizer/TypeScript/Babel etc that are important for development or distribution.
(Did I mention that import maps was only supported in only Firefox 3 months ago?)
People think they are smart and come up with ideas nobody thought of before. "This seems so simple, why don't people use this?" I'm sorry, that's not the case here. I have been doing web development as a hobby and professionally for well over a decade and have seen too much of this.
(Did I mention that import maps was only supported in only Firefox 3 months ago?)
People think they are smart and come up with ideas nobody thought of before. "This seems so simple, why don't people use this?" I'm sorry, that's not the case here. I have been doing web development as a hobby and professionally for well over a decade and have seen too much of this.