support for import.meta

[johndeighan]

bug report - it's not listed under Unsupported ECMAScript Features

Input Code

import { dirname } from 'path';
import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';

__dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));

Expected Behavior

This should give us the equivalent to __dirname in common js

Current Behavior

Error message for the period after import in the last line

Possible Solution

Should work as it does in ECMAScript, or at least be listed as not compatible

Context

As a workaround, I put the import.meta.url inside backquotes so coffeescript uses it as is.
But I'm not sure yet whether that always works.

Environment

• CoffeeScript version: CoffeeScript version 2.5.1
• Node.js version: v16.2.0

[wdavidw]

This is the first time in 10 years that I am using the backquote behavior, thanks for the temporary solution.

[edemaine]

It looks like this bug was fixed by #5324 (June 3, 2020) but that CoffeeScript hasn't released since then (v2.5.1 was released on NPM on January 31, 2020). Probably worth a new release?

[GeoffreyBooth]

Yeah. There’s also top-level await that we need to support.

[GeoffreyBooth]

Resolved in #5374.