JavaScript modules are a powerful feature that allows us to better organize our code, but it also allows us to share modules across projects. I hope you enjoyed and learned something new today.

ECMAScript modules, aka ES modules or ESM, is the official JavaScript module syntax. As such, it is not technically a tool, but it has broad implications for JS development and tools.

TypeScript (a strongly typed superset of JavaScript) also supports ES Modules for Node.js 16, starting with TypeScript 4.7. The way to load a CommonJS module in JavaScript is to use the require ...

Google has launched Chrome 61 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Additions in this release include JavaScript modules and WebUSB support, among other developer features. You can update to the latest ...

On March 15, the module was then added as a dependency to the node-ipc module, a popular dependency that many JavaScript developers in the npm ecosystem rely on. There is where good intentions ...

This JavaScript thing might just catch on. The world's most popular programming language is starting to look like a real programming language, with classes, modules, promises and more. There's even a ...

One of those very large packages was Babel, the JavaScript "compiler"—a tool that cleans up and updates JavaScript code to match current standards. Babel uses another module, called line-numbers ...

Microsoft shipped the beta release of TypeScript 4.7, which tackles a "very difficult feature," ECMAScript Module Support in Node.js. The difficulty arises from two different JavaScript module systems ...

Most JavaScript developers are familiar with the npm package manager, which was originally developed by Isaac Schlueter. What many probably don’t know is that npm is also a company co-founded by ...

The open source JavaScript runtime Node.js has reached version 23. The most important new features include the standard activation of require(esm) for Node.js applications, remote support for 32 ...