import.meta.resolve()

[marcoscaceres]

Request for position on an emerging web specification

• WebKittens who can provide input:

Information about the spec

• Spec Title: import.meta.resolve()
• Spec URL: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webappapis.html#hostgetimportmetaproperties
• GitHub repository:
• Issue Tracker (if not the repository's issue tracker):
• Explainer (if not README.md in the repository):

Design reviews and vendor positions

• TAG Design Review:
• Mozilla standards-positions issue:

Bugs tracking this feature

• WebKit Bugzilla: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242163
• Radar: rdar://96569044

Anything else we need to know

On WebKit-dev, @domenic proposed:

We're proposing a small additional function to add to the HTML Standard, named import.meta.resolve(). See the PR 1 and a mini-explainer 2. Gecko folks have reviewed the PR and contributed to the discussion, but any thoughts from WebKit would be very welcome.

We're hoping to ship in Chrome within the next few weeks, and I imagine web developers would love it if you were to also implement. We have a basic implementation and web platform tests you may find useful 3.

Thanks,
Domenic

[Constellation]

This looks reasonable. Our internal implementation starts with async resolve function, and eventually we converted it into sync resolve function too.

[domenic]

Thanks @marcoscaceres and @Constellation!

I've merged the HTML spec PR, so there is now a spec at https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#hostgetimportmetaproperties . Tests are at web-platform-tests/wpt#34188 and I filed a WebKit bug at https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242163 . Let me know if there's anything else I can help with.

[marcoscaceres]

Thanks @domenic! That's great. And thanks also for filling the WebKit bug. 🙏

[litherum]

The sync version seems fairly easily polyfill-able. That’s not to say that it’s useless to add to browsers; it just seems like it wouldn’t be high priority.

Regarding the async version:

it might be useful for the function to account for concerns like HTTP redirects

This is certainly more powerful than the sync version, but 1. Is probably not what authors actually want, and 2. Seems complicated enough that I don’t know how it would actually work.

[Constellation]

WebKit/WebKit@78c6d6d Landed into WebKit.

[hober]

Closing as we've identified our position.