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Imports in ES5

The ES6 import keyword is so pervasive in how we write JavaScript currently that when when I had to "import" the path package in ES5 I didn't know how to do it!

It's really easy though, and if you don't like magic keywords maybe it's a little more intuitive too.

const path = require('path');

And if something is the default export in it's module, then you can use the default property.

const Something = require('something').default;

I ran into this in a file that was outside the build path, gatsby-config.js.

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