ESM to CJS

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If you're importing an ESM module into a common JS file via the Asynchronous method in order to access the default export, you literally have to type dot default or destructure the default property. And usually that happens when people are compiling to common JS and running like they like I'm authoring it ESM, but it still says dot default. It's kind of, kind of bonkers. Oh, so that is moving from CJS to ESM. We've been talking about it a while for a while. But some of that stuff with when you get into TypeScript stuff that just works and I just like, yeah, don't question it. Maybe I'm just happy

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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