Q: why must the import be done in onMount?

[geoidesic]

I'm wondering why we can't just do:

<script>
    import BABYLON from 'babylonjs'
</script>

instead of

  onMount(async () => {
    const babylonjs = await import('babylonjs');
    BABYLON = babylonjs.default;
  });

?

[rogueyoshi]

It's for SSR compatibility. Babylon can't run on node server, onMount only runs in the client.

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[rogueyoshi]

But that actually reminds me, Babylon has partial server side rendering now. It can ship generated scenes from the server to the client. I will add that to the TODO.