Any way to use webpack to load a resource at runtime?

Question

I have a single .json file that contains configuration stuff that I would like to reference from another script file using the typical import/require syntax. Currently I\'m

Answer 1

With Webpack 2, you can use System.import. It uses the Promise API. AFAIK, currently there's no way to have async/await code run in the browser. I believe Babel can only transpile async/await down to ES2015 so only the latest version of Node (v6.x) can run it. I don't think browsers are capable of understanding it yet because the transpiled code uses generators.

For System.import please note that some older browsers (IE 11 and below I believe) will require you to polyfill the Promise API. Check out polyfill.io for that.

If you REALLY want to use async/await in the browser, you might be able to do a full polyfill for ES2015.