I'm looking for name suggestions for my import module. The purpose of the tool is to add file importing abilities to JavaScript and CoffeeScript files via a #import
directive similar to other languages.
import
is a bad name for the module for a number of reasons:
import
is a reserved word in JavaScript/CoffeeScript so you cannot writevar import = require('import')
without getting syntax errors.- The
import
command line tool conflicts with another tool of the same name which is commonly installed on Linux and Mac systems as part of the Imagemagick package.
For these reasons, I'm looking for a new name. The criteria are basically that the name must be available on npm
and it must not be a JS reserved word. Here are a few that I thought of: