ES6 modules: imported constants are undefined at first; they become available later

As suggested in the comments, the answer here are circular dependencies. There is actually no circular dependency present in the code provided in the question (because it’s just a simplified snippet of code) but the symptoms are very clear. The simplest example of a circular dependency is when file A imports file B and file … Read more

JEST – SyntaxError: Unexpected token ‘export’ with uuid library

Thanks to this reply: https://stackoverflow.com/a/54117206/15741905 I started googling for similar fixes and ended up here: https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid/issues/451 And this solved my problem: https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid/issues/451#issuecomment-1112328417 // jest.config.js { //……………. moduleNameMapper: { // Force module uuid to resolve with the CJS entry point, because Jest does not support package.json.exports. See https://github.com/uuidjs/uuid/issues/451 “uuid”: require.resolve(‘uuid’), } } Tough I would still … Read more

Why do I need Babel JS?

While the answers here are all correct, Babel is not just about ES6 (ES2015). The ECMA standards committee has agreed to release yearly updates to the JavaScript language. Babel will always integrate the standards, whereas we don’t know if all the browsers will, and if they do, whether they will be able to keep up … Read more

Optional chaining operator support in VSCode

VS Code 1.41 supports optional chaining in both JavaScript and TypeScript files. This support includes syntax highlighting and IntelliSense. If you are using VS Code 1.41+ and optional chaining is not working as expected, try: Check your installed extensions. Some of them may not yet understand optional chaining, which could cause errors or bad syntax … Read more

Running Mocha + Istanbul + Babel

Using Babel 6.x, let’s say we have file test/pad.spec.js: import pad from ‘../src/assets/js/helpers/pad’; import assert from ‘assert’; describe(‘pad’, () => { it(‘should pad a string’, () => { assert.equal(pad(‘foo’, 4), ‘0foo’); }); }); Install a bunch of crap: $ npm install babel-istanbul babel-cli babel-preset-es2015 mocha Create a .babelrc: { “presets”: [“es2015”] } Run the tests: … Read more

Can I pre-declare variables for destructuring assignment of objects? [duplicate]

When you are destructuring an Object, you need to use the same variable names as the keys in the object. Only then you will get one to one correspondence and the values will be destructured properly. and you need to wrap the entire assignment in parenthesis if you are not using declaration statement, otherwise the … Read more

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