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@azz azz commented Nov 26, 2019

Fixes #30655

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I don't think we should be documenting using a non-standard flag here in the docs... but we could improve the documentation above to make the difference between extensionless file path (path has no extension) and extensionless specifiers (path has extension, specifier doesn't, node resolves extension) clearer

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import './startup.js'; // Loaded as ES module because of package.json

// Extensionless. Requires 'node --es-module-specifier-resolution=node'
import './startup'; // Loaded as ES module because of package.json
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Extensionless files, as documented above, are different from extensionless specifiers (which you are documenting here). Extensionless files mean the file path itself has no extension e.g. /path/to/file, not the specifier e.g. './file' where path is /path/to/file.js.

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Ah I see. Yeah it could definitely be clarified.

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Would you be ok removing this line and instead clarifying above?

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Done. Had trouble writing it succinctly so let me know if it makes sense.

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azz commented Nov 27, 2019

I don't think we should be documenting using a non-standard flag here

What do you mean by "non-standard flag"?

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MylesBorins commented Nov 27, 2019

@azz it is an experimental flag, not an agreed upon official feature. Not having it labelled experimental was actually an oversight.

I'm actually working on making that clearer in #30678

@azz azz changed the title doc: clarify required flag for extensionless esm doc: clarify extensionless esm Dec 3, 2019
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Took a quick stab at some slightly different text, unsure if it is better. Happy to see this land with the suggested changes ignore or landed.

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juanarbol commented Dec 18, 2019

I don't know if is necessary, but in #30699, CJS module will give suggestions when file extension is not provided, maybe it would be nice in this docs.

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Fixes: #30655

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Landed in 3e5967b

@juanarbol I think documenting #30699 is a great idea, but should likely happen in that PR (so we don't land the docs before the change is landed)

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