Problem

I often find myself needing to load non-JavaScript non-TypeScript assets, and various problems arise:

• Local module (in git repo) has to use fs but remote module has to use fetch.
• The assets cannot be cached.
• The assets cannot be bundled.

Suggestion

Add some way to annotate assets using comments, and fetch should support those assets. For example:

// @deno-asset './assets/foo.wasm'
// @deno-asset './assets/bar.png'
await fetch(new URL('./assets/foo.wasm', import.meta.url))
await fetch(new URL('./assets/bar.png', import.meta.url))
// --allow-net is not required since it reads from cache

Alternatives

There is asset reference proposal that is likely not going to get to stage 3 anytime soon.

import assertion proposal had reached stage 3.

Import types text and bytes are being discussed in whatwg/html#9444