RESOURCES.md

Resources

A collection of items related to Node.js module work

Reading

• The Current State of Implementation and Planning for ESModules
• ESM modules in node: npm edition

Meetings

• Meeting availability #1
• Meeting availability #2

Prior Art

Following a list of ESM and CommonJS relevant projects.

Bundlers

• Webpack multi purpose bundler compatible with CommonJS exports.default strategy. Actually diverging from npm resolution preferring a browser field in the package.json instead of actual CommonJS.
• Rollup next-generation ES6 module bundler with tree shaking capability
• Parceljs multi purpose bundler focused on zero config and performance
• Browserify the CommonJS module bundler that brought NodeJS to the Web

Transpilers

• Babel converts ES2015+ to older versions, including a CommonJS interop layer with ESM
• TypeScript TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript, including a CommonJS interop layer with ESM

Loaders

• Reify compiles ESM syntax to CommonJS on the fly, supporting live bindings without rewriting imported variable names
• @std/esm is a fork of Reify focused on following Node's ESM support roadmap while providing a bridge from the CJS/ESM usage of today to the ESM of tomorrow.

Runtime Utilities

• cjs4esm brings CommonJS modules and require to ESM compatible environments such SpiderMonkey, JSC, or ESM compatible browsers
• import.js is a dynamic import(...) polyfill
• SpiderMonkey ESM Loader
• CGJS is a CommonJS runtime for GJS