ESM: ECMAScript Modules
Explore how ECMAScript Modules offer a standardized, static module approach in Node.js. Understand their syntax, benefits over CommonJS, including support for static imports, asynchronous loading, and optimization techniques like tree shaking. Learn how to configure Node.js to use ESM effectively with .mjs files or the package.json 'type' field.
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ECMAScript modules (also known as ES modules or ESM) were introduced as part of the ECMAScript 2015 specification with the goal to give JavaScript an official module system suitable for different execution environments. The ESM specification tries to retain some good ideas from previous existing module systems like CommonJS and AMD. The ...