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 ...

The difficulty arises from two different JavaScript module systems used in tooling essential to TypeScript: ECMAScript modules (ESM) used in the official JavaScript standard, and CommonJS (CJS), used ...

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.