Side loading

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Christophe Grand edited this page Jul 31, 2017 · 2 revisions

An extension that hooks up in the server environment loading mechanism to ask the client for resources (classes, sources or any other file).

This enables to:

expose any local resource to the repl
work around firewalled servers (that wouldn't be able to fetch a dep for example)
send code on demand (reducing init latency)

This uses a dedicated pair of streams because loading can occur at any time.