# Existing JS module import into ES6 plugin
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/existing-js-module-import-into-es6-plugin/52713
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [November 9, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/existing-js-module-import-into-es6-plugin/52713 "2016-11-09T16:38:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@ntadej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ntadej)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/existing-js-module-import-into-es6-plugin/52713/1 "2016-11-09T16:38:04Z")
I’m writing a markdown plugin which needs an external JS for server side code. How to import the module properly so it will be detected by `mini_racer`. I can either import JS module (as git submodule) or already compiled min.js.
If I just do `register_asset` ‘file.js’, :server\_side it works in browser, but not when I try to rebuild post HTML.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2016, 6:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/existing-js-module-import-into-es6-plugin/52713/2 "2016-11-21T18:31:08Z")
This is an example of plugin that modifies post cooking:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/plugins/poll/assets/javascripts/lib/discourse-markdown/poll.js.es6](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/plugins/poll/assets/javascripts/lib/discourse-markdown/poll.js.es6)
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### Author:  [@ntadej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ntadej)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/existing-js-module-import-into-es6-plugin/52713/3 "2016-11-21T18:59:31Z")
Thank you for your example. Here you included full function inline. Is there a way to “require” it to have a cleaner plugin?
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### Author:  [@ntadej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ntadej)
#### Post date: [November 25, 2016, 6:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/existing-js-module-import-into-es6-plugin/52713/4 "2016-11-25T18:48:01Z")
If I copy the (un)minified code of the library directly to plugin ES6 file, it fails.