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Shopify Engineering·May 28, 2025·10 min read52

Resilient Import Maps - Better Theme Development and Beyond (2025) - Shopify

Import maps are great for both performance and developer experience, but their original limitations made them hard to use, especially at Shopify’s scale. We stepped up and pushed changes across the HTML spec, Chromium and WebKit to fix these issues at the web platform level. Now, developers can interleave JavaScript modules and multiple import maps on their HTML pages without worrying about correctness issues.

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