Importing a Node, Is It a Require?

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There's no underscore underscore, surname, no underscore underscore file name. You have to define this every single time in your file or you can make a function that passes import meta URL. TypeScript is the goat here, because it is in a space where you can mix and match the two. I wanted to first move to 100% to ESM before I did the full TypeScript rewrite. It's so much clearer. But TypeScript makes a lot of this much, much easier for you.

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk through what ESM is, and why you want to move your projects to ESM.

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