According to the Exploring ES6 site, "JavaScript has had modules for a long time. However, they were implemented via libraries, not built into the language. ES6 is the first time that JavaScript has ...

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.

Modules compiled for one version of Node.js would then run on later versions with no need to recompile. The N-API effort also aims to ease support of multiple back-end JavaScript engines.

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 ...