Understand the Differences Between import and require: challenge bug

JavaScript
1

Tell us what’s happening:

  1. The challenge description is incorrect; you reference “string_functions” and the hint says “string-functions”
  2. The challenge desdribes using “./” to reference the imported file in the same directory; the hint excludes that so would reference node_modules, not a local file
  3. Regardless, the hint code does not work, nor does my correct code.

Your code so far
import { capitalizeString } from “./string_functions”;
“use strict”;
capitalizeString(“hello!”);

Also does not work with 'string_functions" or with “./string-functions” or with “./string_functions”


import { capitalizeString } from "string-functions";
"use strict";
capitalizeString("hello!");

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Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/es6/understand-the-differences-between-import-and-require

2

You need to have matching quotation marks for this to be valid code… try it.

But yeah, agreed, the description and solution are at odds with each other.

3

That was nothing but a typo in creating my comment; I had proper quotes when I ran the code.

And, the given hint answer just does not work:

"use strict";
import { capitalizeString } from "string-functions";
capitalizeString("hello!");

And notice that it CANNOT work because it doesn’t use “./” to make it a local file rather than a node_modules file. And if I add the “./” it still does not work. There’s something else going on and needs to be fixed.