export ** has been suggested before, and it does seem like it would be a
useful proposal to me.

On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 8:17 AM Jordan Harband <ljh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/pull/1174 adds `export * as someName from
> 'path'`; https://github.com/tc39/proposal-export-default-from is the
> proposal that you're looking for.
>
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 6:48 AM Mike Samuel <mikesam...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 1:35 AM Cyril Auburtin <cyril.aubur...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Sometimes, (particularly in React codebases) you have to write many
>>> lines like:
>>> ```js
>>> export { default as FooBar } from './FooBar';
>>> ```
>>> It could be automated of course
>>>
>>> It could also be tuned into
>>> ```js
>>> export * from './FooBar';
>>> ```
>>> only if FooBar is also a named export in that file, but usually files
>>> with one export just use a default export
>>>
>>> ------
>>> This proposed syntax:
>>> ```js
>>> export ** from './FooBar';
>>> ```
>>> Would do:
>>> ```js
>>> export * from './FooBar';
>>> export { default as FooBar } from './FooBar';
>>> ```
>>> the filename is used as default export name.
>>>
>>> If the filename isn't a valid JS identifier, like 'foo-bar' for example,
>>> it would throw
>>>
>>
>> ES doesn't impose many constraints on the string content of a module
>> specifier but in practice it maps fairly directly to a URL per
>> https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webappapis.html#hostgetimportmetaproperties
>> so filename is probably broadly available.
>>
>> Would this use the filename from the module specifier or from the URL
>> (assuming import.meta.url)?
>> IIRC, only the module specifier is available within ES currently.
>> The translation between specifiers and URLs (if that happens) is up to a
>> host callback (HostResolveImportedModule) and does not surface inside the
>> ES engine.
>> That import.meta.url exists is up to another host callback so assuming
>> it's existence might require constraining host implementations of
>> HostGetMetaProperties(?).
>>
>> What would this do when import.meta.url/specifier has a query part, or
>> that look like a non-hierarchical URL?
>>     export ** from "path?foo=bar";
>>     export ** from "?foo=bar";
>>     export ** from "data:application/javascript+module,export default
>> null;"
>>
>> Does anyone know if existing CDNs use the path component for something
>> other than the path contributed by the uploader and expect the original
>> filename in the query, like
>> host.cdn/path/to/tarball?p=path/within/tarball.js ?
>>
>>
>>
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