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Re:Node Modules at War: Why CommonJS and ES Modules Can’t Ge... by dsun179 on Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:05AM (#24068997)
The reason is not correct. Nodejs cache the require lot and so circular dependencies can work without returning half finished loads.
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Re:Node Modules at War: Why CommonJS and ES Modules Can’t Ge... by foreigner on Thursday August 06, 2020 @06:38AM (#24069717)
Nodejs does cache the results of require(), but that doesn't help with this problem. Example: https://repl.it/repls/SwiftOlivedrabBrace
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