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In this post, I explore importing npm modules into web projects using ES6 modules. I needed a quick way to use the 'get-urls' npm module in my ES6 project without resorting to CommonJS bundling. My solution involves creating a wrapper file to import the module, using Rollup to handle Node globals and builtins, converting to ES modules via the CommonJS plugin, and finally, including the bundled file. This highlights a larger issue: much of the Node ecosystem, though not inherently Node-specific, is tightly coupled with it through CommonJS and APIs like 'Buffer' and the old 'URL.' Transitioning to ubiquitous ES modules will require effort and potentially be painful. Until the ecosystem adapts, we'll rely on conversion tools and bundlers for cross-platform code sharing. While using '.mjs' as a standard extension is promising, the lack of infrastructure recognizing it as 'text/javascript' necessitates further server-side configuration, which adds complexity.

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