Enhancement: Page Imports

[ghost]

It would be great if we could have a new attribute for the <Page> element called import that lets us specify a module name to require/import, instead of it searching for a filename.

This will be very helpful in implementing a clean directory structure.

Also an extension on #1667; codeFile breaks in bundlers like webpack since bundles are by definition single-file. import fixes this by importing with global.loadModule.

@enchev, IIRC you were talking about turning CSS into modules for webpack and this could lend itself to that too by doing the same with a new stylesheet attribute -- with module.exports being a string.

[NickIliev]

Hi @vbresults thank you for your feature suggestion!
Everyone who has an opinion on that matter can write it down in this thread.

Ping @hshristov , @enchev , @hdeshev

[ghost]

@NickIliev Ok, let me know and I will submit a PR: https://github.com/vbresults/NativeScript/commit/b3427a48ebcdb728094e7200a658bfef56542913

[hdeshev]

I like the idea. It looks like we can deprecate the codeFile feature as import seems to do the same thing in a more flexible way. For example, you could use it to "import" a platform-specific my-page.android.js file, if needed.

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