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Frontend & browser·Modules, bundling and the build

you told the browser directly what `react` resolves to and skipped the bundler for that import.

Import map

A script block that maps bare module specifiers to URLs, letting the browser resolve imports without a build step. It makes native modules workable for small applications and for pinning a shared dependency across independently built pieces. It does not solve the thing bundlers were built for — request count and waterfalls through deep dependency chains — so it complements a build rather than replacing one.

Commonly confused with