Node.js Loaders Team Meeting 2023-05-09 #140

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1. mhdawson

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   on May 5, 2023
2. GeoffreyBooth commented on May 6, 2023

   

   GeoffreyBooth

   on May 6, 2023

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   A Slack conversation turned into an impromptu (text-based) meeting: https://openjs-foundation.slack.com/archives/C053UCCP940/p1683406821698669?thread_ts=1683400385.659389&cid=C053UCCP940

   I can add the whole thread as a “meeting” to our meeting notes, but I wanted to save the conclusion here where it could be more easily found:

   Next steps, in priority order

   1. Add support for the load hook to understand source returned when type is commonjs.
   2. Add the registerLoader API.
   3. Currently we spawn a new loaders thread for each new application Worker thread. Change this so that there’s always only one loaders thread, no matter how many application (main + worker) threads there are.
   4. Split out the port aspect of globalPreload into its own API, with consideration given to communication between the one loaders thread and the potentially many application threads.
   5. Remove the globalPreload hook, as it should no longer be needed now that registerLoader and the new communications API have landed.
   6. If desired, add support to new Worker for spawning a new loaders thread alongside the new worker thread. Allow either inheriting the loaders defined at initial process launch or defining new ones specific to that new loaders thread.

   Finishing all of these (or all but the last, optional, one) will complete the items in https://github.com/nodejs/loaders#milestone-2-stability which are our remaining to-do items before hopefully marking the Loaders API as stable.

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3. JakobJingleheimer

   closed this as completedon May 9, 2023
4. JakobJingleheimer commented on May 9, 2023

   

   JakobJingleheimer

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   Our active items are:

   • WIP module: implement register utility node#46826
     • we have consensus on the immediate and follow-up steps
   • custom loaders supporting source for format: commonjs
     • championed by @JakobJingleheimer and @isaacs

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