By default, node thinks your project is common JS. You can flip that by putting type of module in your package JSON. Common JS cannot import ESM packages synchronously. So there's two new file extensions: modules and cjs for common JS.
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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