Dynamic imports

[rauchg]

We should make it really easy to load modules dynamically.
For example, to only load some code client side:

componentDidMount () {
  import('./something').then(() => {
    // awesomeness!
  })
}

[arunoda]

@rauchg is this for pages or for anything?

[rauchg]

@arunoda anything. Might require whitelisting in config though

[impronunciable]

This already works

[arunoda]

@impronunciable oh really :)

[arunoda]

I got an error. May be we need to bake something more into that.

[impronunciable]

Wow, it works on the dev server but not when build + start 🤔

[arunoda]

@impronunciable May be dev server serves necessary API endpoints. We may need to allow them in the production for exported chunks.

[impronunciable]

that could be

[arunoda]

I think this could be easily doable. May be this is the same functionality as System.import in webpack.

[mxstbr]

Webpack supports this out of the box and it works just like System.import, see webpack/webpack#3413

[impronunciable]

@mxstbr We are using the webpack version but need to adapt our server to allow it