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138<li><a href="#esm_modules_ecmascript_modules">Modules: ECMAScript modules</a>
139<ul>
140<li><a href="#esm_introduction">Introduction</a></li>
141<li><a href="#esm_enabling">Enabling</a></li>
142<li><a href="#esm_packages">Packages</a></li>
143<li><a href="#esm_import_specifiers"><code>import</code> Specifiers</a>
144<ul>
145<li><a href="#esm_terminology">Terminology</a></li>
146<li><a href="#esm_mandatory_file_extensions">Mandatory file extensions</a></li>
147<li><a href="#esm_urls">URLs</a>
148<ul>
149<li><a href="#esm_file_urls"><code>file:</code> URLs</a></li>
150<li><a href="#esm_data_imports"><code>data:</code> Imports</a></li>
151<li><a href="#esm_node_imports"><code>node:</code> Imports</a></li>
152</ul>
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154</ul>
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156<li><a href="#esm_builtin_modules">Builtin modules</a></li>
157<li><a href="#esm_import_expressions"><code>import()</code> expressions</a></li>
158<li><a href="#esm_import_meta"><code>import.meta</code></a>
159<ul>
160<li><a href="#esm_import_meta_url"><code>import.meta.url</code></a></li>
161<li><span class="stability_1"><a href="#esm_import_meta_resolve_specifier_parent"><code>import.meta.resolve(specifier[, parent])</code></a></span></li>
162</ul>
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164<li><a href="#esm_interoperability_with_commonjs">Interoperability with CommonJS</a>
165<ul>
166<li><a href="#esm_import_statements"><code>import</code> statements</a></li>
167<li><a href="#esm_require"><code>require</code></a></li>
168<li><a href="#esm_commonjs_namespaces">CommonJS Namespaces</a></li>
169<li><a href="#esm_differences_between_es_modules_and_commonjs">Differences between ES modules and CommonJS</a>
170<ul>
171<li><a href="#esm_no_require_exports_or_module_exports">No <code>require</code>, <code>exports</code> or <code>module.exports</code></a></li>
172<li><a href="#esm_no_filename_or_dirname">No <code>__filename</code> or <code>__dirname</code></a></li>
173<li><a href="#esm_no_json_module_loading">No JSON Module Loading</a></li>
174<li><a href="#esm_no_native_module_loading">No Native Module Loading</a></li>
175<li><a href="#esm_no_require_resolve">No <code>require.resolve</code></a></li>
176<li><a href="#esm_no_node_path">No <code>NODE_PATH</code></a></li>
177<li><a href="#esm_no_require_extensions">No <code>require.extensions</code></a></li>
178<li><a href="#esm_no_require_cache">No <code>require.cache</code></a></li>
179</ul>
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185<li><span class="stability_1"><a href="#esm_top_level_await">Top-level <code>await</code></a></span></li>
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191<li><a href="#esm_getformat_url_context_defaultgetformat"><code>getFormat(url, context, defaultGetFormat)</code></a></li>
192<li><a href="#esm_getsource_url_context_defaultgetsource"><code>getSource(url, context, defaultGetSource)</code></a></li>
193<li><a href="#esm_transformsource_source_context_defaulttransformsource"><code>transformSource(source, context, defaultTransformSource)</code></a></li>
194<li><a href="#esm_getglobalpreloadcode"><code>getGlobalPreloadCode()</code></a></li>
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208<li><a href="#esm_resolver_algorithm">Resolver algorithm</a></li>
209<li><a href="#esm_resolver_algorithm_specification">Resolver Algorithm Specification</a></li>
210<li><span class="stability_1"><a href="#esm_customizing_esm_specifier_resolution_algorithm">Customizing ESM specifier resolution algorithm</a></span></li>
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218        <h2>Modules: ECMAScript modules<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_modules_ecmascript_modules" id="esm_modules_ecmascript_modules">#</a></span></h2>
219
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221<div class="api_metadata">
222<details class="changelog"><summary>History</summary>
223<table>
224<tbody><tr><th>Version</th><th>Changes</th></tr>
225<tr><td>v14.17.0</td>
226<td><p>Stabilize modules implementation.</p></td></tr>
227<tr><td>v14.13.0</td>
228<td><p>Support for detection of CommonJS named exports.</p></td></tr>
229<tr><td>v14.8.0</td>
230<td><p>Unflag Top-Level Await.</p></td></tr>
231<tr><td>v14.0.0, v13.14.0</td>
232<td><p>Remove experimental modules warning.</p></td></tr>
233<tr><td>v13.2.0, v12.17.0</td>
234<td><p>Loading ECMAScript modules no longer requires a command-line flag.</p></td></tr>
235<tr><td>v12.0.0</td>
236<td><p>Add support for ES modules using <code>.js</code> file extension via <code>package.json</code> <code>"type"</code> field.</p></td></tr>
237<tr><td>v8.5.0</td>
238<td><p><span>Added in: v8.5.0</span></p></td></tr>
239</tbody></table>
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242<p></p><div class="api_stability api_stability_2"><a href="documentation.html#documentation_stability_index">Stability: 2</a> - Stable</div><p></p>
243<section><h3>Introduction<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_introduction" id="esm_introduction">#</a></span></h3>
244
245<p>ECMAScript modules are <a href="https://tc39.github.io/ecma262/#sec-modules">the official standard format</a> to package JavaScript
246code for reuse. Modules are defined using a variety of <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/import"><code>import</code></a> and
247<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/export"><code>export</code></a> statements.</p>
248<p>The following example of an ES module exports a function:</p>
249<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-comment">// addTwo.mjs</span>
250<span class="hljs-keyword">function</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">addTwo</span>(<span class="hljs-params">num</span>) {
251  <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> num + <span class="hljs-number">2</span>;
252}
253
254<span class="hljs-keyword">export</span> { addTwo };</code></pre>
255<p>The following example of an ES module imports the function from <code>addTwo.mjs</code>:</p>
256<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-comment">// app.mjs</span>
257<span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> { addTwo } <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'./addTwo.mjs'</span>;
258
259<span class="hljs-comment">// Prints: 6</span>
260<span class="hljs-variable language_">console</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">log</span>(<span class="hljs-title function_">addTwo</span>(<span class="hljs-number">4</span>));</code></pre>
261<p>Node.js fully supports ECMAScript modules as they are currently specified and
262provides interoperability between them and its original module format,
263<a href="modules.html">CommonJS</a>.</p>
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268</section><section><h3>Enabling<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_enabling" id="esm_enabling">#</a></span></h3>
269
270<p>Node.js treats JavaScript code as CommonJS modules by default.
271Authors can tell Node.js to treat JavaScript code as ECMAScript modules
272via the <code>.mjs</code> file extension, the <code>package.json</code> <a href="packages.html#packages_type"><code>"type"</code></a> field, or the
273<code>--input-type</code> flag. See
274<a href="packages.html#packages_determining_module_system">Modules: Packages</a> for more
275details.</p>
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283<i id="esm_nested_conditions"></i>
284<i id="esm_self_referencing_a_package_using_its_name"></i>
285<i id="esm_internal_package_imports"></i>
286<i id="esm_dual_commonjs_es_module_packages"></i>
287<i id="esm_dual_package_hazard"></i>
288<i id="esm_writing_dual_packages_while_avoiding_or_minimizing_hazards"></i>
289<i id="esm_approach_1_use_an_es_module_wrapper"></i>
290<i id="esm_approach_2_isolate_state"></i></p>
291</section><section><h3>Packages<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_packages" id="esm_packages">#</a></span></h3>
292<p>This section was moved to <a href="packages.html">Modules: Packages</a>.</p>
293</section><section><h3><code>import</code> Specifiers<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_import_specifiers" id="esm_import_specifiers">#</a></span></h3>
294<h4>Terminology<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_terminology" id="esm_terminology">#</a></span></h4>
295<p>The <em>specifier</em> of an <code>import</code> statement is the string after the <code>from</code> keyword,
296e.g. <code>'path'</code> in <code>import { sep } from 'path'</code>. Specifiers are also used in
297<code>export from</code> statements, and as the argument to an <code>import()</code> expression.</p>
298<p>There are three types of specifiers:</p>
299<ul>
300<li>
301<p><em>Relative specifiers</em> like <code>'./startup.js'</code> or <code>'../config.mjs'</code>. They refer
302to a path relative to the location of the importing file. <em>The file extension
303is always necessary for these.</em></p>
304</li>
305<li>
306<p><em>Bare specifiers</em> like <code>'some-package'</code> or <code>'some-package/shuffle'</code>. They can
307refer to the main entry point of a package by the package name, or a
308specific feature module within a package prefixed by the package name as per
309the examples respectively. <em>Including the file extension is only necessary
310for packages without an <a href="packages.html#packages_exports"><code>"exports"</code></a> field.</em></p>
311</li>
312<li>
313<p><em>Absolute specifiers</em> like <code>'file:///opt/nodejs/config.js'</code>. They refer
314directly and explicitly to a full path.</p>
315</li>
316</ul>
317<p>Bare specifier resolutions are handled by the <a href="#esm_resolver_algorithm_specification">Node.js module resolution
318algorithm</a>. All other specifier resolutions are always only resolved with
319the standard relative <a href="https://url.spec.whatwg.org/">URL</a> resolution semantics.</p>
320<p>Like in CommonJS, module files within packages can be accessed by appending a
321path to the package name unless the package’s <a href="packages.html#packages_node_js_package_json_field_definitions"><code>package.json</code></a> contains an
322<a href="packages.html#packages_exports"><code>"exports"</code></a> field, in which case files within packages can only be accessed
323via the paths defined in <a href="packages.html#packages_exports"><code>"exports"</code></a>.</p>
324<p>For details on these package resolution rules that apply to bare specifiers in
325the Node.js module resolution, see the <a href="packages.html">packages documentation</a>.</p>
326<h4>Mandatory file extensions<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_mandatory_file_extensions" id="esm_mandatory_file_extensions">#</a></span></h4>
327<p>A file extension must be provided when using the <code>import</code> keyword to resolve
328relative or absolute specifiers. Directory indexes (e.g. <code>'./startup/index.js'</code>)
329must also be fully specified.</p>
330<p>This behavior matches how <code>import</code> behaves in browser environments, assuming a
331typically configured server.</p>
332<h4>URLs<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_urls" id="esm_urls">#</a></span></h4>
333<p>ES modules are resolved and cached as URLs. This means that files containing
334special characters such as <code>#</code> and <code>?</code> need to be escaped.</p>
335<p><code>file:</code>, <code>node:</code>, and <code>data:</code> URL schemes are supported. A specifier like
336<code>'https://example.com/app.js'</code> is not supported natively in Node.js unless using
337a <a href="#esm_https_loader">custom HTTPS loader</a>.</p>
338<h5><code>file:</code> URLs<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_file_urls" id="esm_file_urls">#</a></span></h5>
339<p>Modules are loaded multiple times if the <code>import</code> specifier used to resolve
340them has a different query or fragment.</p>
341<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> <span class="hljs-string">'./foo.mjs?query=1'</span>; <span class="hljs-comment">// loads ./foo.mjs with query of "?query=1"</span>
342<span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> <span class="hljs-string">'./foo.mjs?query=2'</span>; <span class="hljs-comment">// loads ./foo.mjs with query of "?query=2"</span></code></pre>
343<p>The volume root may be referenced via <code>/</code>, <code>//</code> or <code>file:///</code>. Given the
344differences between <a href="https://url.spec.whatwg.org/">URL</a> and path resolution (such as percent encoding
345details), it is recommended to use <a href="url.html#url_url_pathtofileurl_path">url.pathToFileURL</a> when importing a path.</p>
346<h5><code>data:</code> Imports<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_data_imports" id="esm_data_imports">#</a></span></h5>
347<div class="api_metadata">
348<span>Added in: v12.10.0</span>
349</div>
350<p><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/Data_URIs"><code>data:</code> URLs</a> are supported for importing with the following MIME types:</p>
351<ul>
352<li><code>text/javascript</code> for ES Modules</li>
353<li><code>application/json</code> for JSON</li>
354<li><code>application/wasm</code> for Wasm</li>
355</ul>
356<p><code>data:</code> URLs only resolve <a href="#esm_terminology"><em>Bare specifiers</em></a> for builtin modules
357and <a href="#esm_terminology"><em>Absolute specifiers</em></a>. Resolving
358<a href="#esm_terminology"><em>Relative specifiers</em></a> does not work because <code>data:</code> is not a
359<a href="https://url.spec.whatwg.org/#special-scheme">special scheme</a>. For example, attempting to load <code>./foo</code>
360from <code>data:text/javascript,import "./foo";</code> fails to resolve because there
361is no concept of relative resolution for <code>data:</code> URLs. An example of a <code>data:</code>
362URLs being used is:</p>
363<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> <span class="hljs-string">'data:text/javascript,console.log("hello!");'</span>;
364<span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> _ <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'data:application/json,"world!"'</span>;</code></pre>
365<h5><code>node:</code> Imports<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_node_imports" id="esm_node_imports">#</a></span></h5>
366<div class="api_metadata">
367<details class="changelog"><summary>History</summary>
368<table>
369<tbody><tr><th>Version</th><th>Changes</th></tr>
370<tr><td>v14.18.0</td>
371<td><p>Added <code>node:</code> import support to <code>require(...)</code>.</p></td></tr>
372<tr><td>v14.13.1, v12.20.0</td>
373<td><p><span>Added in: v14.13.1, v12.20.0</span></p></td></tr>
374</tbody></table>
375</details>
376</div>
377<p><code>node:</code> URLs are supported as an alternative means to load Node.js builtin
378modules. This URL scheme allows for builtin modules to be referenced by valid
379absolute URL strings.</p>
380<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> fs <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'node:fs/promises'</span>;</code></pre>
381</section><section><h3>Builtin modules<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_builtin_modules" id="esm_builtin_modules">#</a></span></h3>
382<p><a href="modules.html#modules_core_modules">Core modules</a> provide named exports of their public API. A
383default export is also provided which is the value of the CommonJS exports.
384The default export can be used for, among other things, modifying the named
385exports. Named exports of builtin modules are updated only by calling
386<a href="module.html#module_module_syncbuiltinesmexports"><code>module.syncBuiltinESMExports()</code></a>.</p>
387<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> <span class="hljs-title class_">EventEmitter</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'events'</span>;
388<span class="hljs-keyword">const</span> e = <span class="hljs-keyword">new</span> <span class="hljs-title class_">EventEmitter</span>();</code></pre>
389<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> { readFile } <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'fs'</span>;
390<span class="hljs-title function_">readFile</span>(<span class="hljs-string">'./foo.txt'</span>, <span class="hljs-function">(<span class="hljs-params">err, source</span>) =></span> {
391  <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> (err) {
392    <span class="hljs-variable language_">console</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">error</span>(err);
393  } <span class="hljs-keyword">else</span> {
394    <span class="hljs-variable language_">console</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">log</span>(source);
395  }
396});</code></pre>
397<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> fs, { readFileSync } <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'fs'</span>;
398<span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> { syncBuiltinESMExports } <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'module'</span>;
399
400fs.<span class="hljs-property">readFileSync</span> = <span class="hljs-function">() =></span> <span class="hljs-title class_">Buffer</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">from</span>(<span class="hljs-string">'Hello, ESM'</span>);
401<span class="hljs-title function_">syncBuiltinESMExports</span>();
402
403fs.<span class="hljs-property">readFileSync</span> === readFileSync;</code></pre>
404</section><section><h3><code>import()</code> expressions<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_import_expressions" id="esm_import_expressions">#</a></span></h3>
405<p><a href="https://wiki.developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/import#Dynamic_Imports">Dynamic <code>import()</code></a> is supported in both CommonJS and ES modules. In CommonJS
406modules it can be used to load ES modules.</p>
407</section><section><h3><code>import.meta</code><span><a class="mark" href="#esm_import_meta" id="esm_import_meta">#</a></span></h3>
408<ul>
409<li><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object" class="type">&#x3C;Object></a></li>
410</ul>
411<p>The <code>import.meta</code> meta property is an <code>Object</code> that contains the following
412properties.</p>
413<h4><code>import.meta.url</code><span><a class="mark" href="#esm_import_meta_url" id="esm_import_meta_url">#</a></span></h4>
414<ul>
415<li><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#String_type" class="type">&#x3C;string></a> The absolute <code>file:</code> URL of the module.</li>
416</ul>
417<p>This is defined exactly the same as it is in browsers providing the URL of the
418current module file.</p>
419<p>This enables useful patterns such as relative file loading:</p>
420<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> { readFileSync } <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'fs'</span>;
421<span class="hljs-keyword">const</span> buffer = <span class="hljs-title function_">readFileSync</span>(<span class="hljs-keyword">new</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">URL</span>(<span class="hljs-string">'./data.proto'</span>, <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span>.<span class="hljs-property">meta</span>.<span class="hljs-property">url</span>));</code></pre>
422<h4><code>import.meta.resolve(specifier[, parent])</code><span><a class="mark" href="#esm_import_meta_resolve_specifier_parent" id="esm_import_meta_resolve_specifier_parent">#</a></span></h4>
423<!--
424added:
425  - v13.9.0
426  - v12.16.2
427changes:
428  - version: v14.18.0
429    pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/38587
430    description: Add support for WHATWG `URL` object to `parentURL` parameter.
431-->
432<p></p><div class="api_stability api_stability_1"><a href="documentation.html#documentation_stability_index">Stability: 1</a> - Experimental</div><p></p>
433<p>This feature is only available with the <code>--experimental-import-meta-resolve</code>
434command flag enabled.</p>
435<ul>
436<li><code>specifier</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#String_type" class="type">&#x3C;string></a> The module specifier to resolve relative to <code>parent</code>.</li>
437<li><code>parent</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#String_type" class="type">&#x3C;string></a> The absolute parent module URL to resolve from. If none
438is specified, the value of <code>import.meta.url</code> is used as the default.</li>
439<li>Returns: <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Promise" class="type">&#x3C;Promise></a></li>
440</ul>
441<p>Provides a module-relative resolution function scoped to each module, returning
442the URL string.</p>
443<!-- eslint-skip -->
444<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-keyword">const</span> dependencyAsset = <span class="hljs-keyword">await</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span>.<span class="hljs-property">meta</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">resolve</span>(<span class="hljs-string">'component-lib/asset.css'</span>);</code></pre>
445<p><code>import.meta.resolve</code> also accepts a second argument which is the parent module
446from which to resolve from:</p>
447<!-- eslint-skip -->
448<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-keyword">await</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span>.<span class="hljs-property">meta</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">resolve</span>(<span class="hljs-string">'./dep'</span>, <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span>.<span class="hljs-property">meta</span>.<span class="hljs-property">url</span>);</code></pre>
449<p>This function is asynchronous because the ES module resolver in Node.js is
450allowed to be asynchronous.</p>
451</section><section><h3>Interoperability with CommonJS<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_interoperability_with_commonjs" id="esm_interoperability_with_commonjs">#</a></span></h3>
452<h4><code>import</code> statements<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_import_statements" id="esm_import_statements">#</a></span></h4>
453<p>An <code>import</code> statement can reference an ES module or a CommonJS module.
454<code>import</code> statements are permitted only in ES modules, but dynamic <a href="#esm_import_expressions"><code>import()</code></a>
455expressions are supported in CommonJS for loading ES modules.</p>
456<p>When importing <a href="#esm_commonjs_namespaces">CommonJS modules</a>, the
457<code>module.exports</code> object is provided as the default export. Named exports may be
458available, provided by static analysis as a convenience for better ecosystem
459compatibility.</p>
460<h4><code>require</code><span><a class="mark" href="#esm_require" id="esm_require">#</a></span></h4>
461<p>The CommonJS module <code>require</code> always treats the files it references as CommonJS.</p>
462<p>Using <code>require</code> to load an ES module is not supported because ES modules have
463asynchronous execution. Instead, use <a href="#esm_import_expressions"><code>import()</code></a> to load an ES module
464from a CommonJS module.</p>
465<h4>CommonJS Namespaces<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_commonjs_namespaces" id="esm_commonjs_namespaces">#</a></span></h4>
466<p>CommonJS modules consist of a <code>module.exports</code> object which can be of any type.</p>
467<p>When importing a CommonJS module, it can be reliably imported using the ES
468module default import or its corresponding sugar syntax:</p>
469<!-- eslint-disable no-duplicate-imports -->
470<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> { <span class="hljs-keyword">default</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> cjs } <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'cjs'</span>;
471
472<span class="hljs-comment">// The following import statement is "syntax sugar" (equivalent but sweeter)</span>
473<span class="hljs-comment">// for `{ default as cjsSugar }` in the above import statement:</span>
474<span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> cjsSugar <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'cjs'</span>;
475
476<span class="hljs-variable language_">console</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">log</span>(cjs);
477<span class="hljs-variable language_">console</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">log</span>(cjs === cjsSugar);
478<span class="hljs-comment">// Prints:</span>
479<span class="hljs-comment">//   &#x3C;module.exports></span>
480<span class="hljs-comment">//   true</span></code></pre>
481<p>The ECMAScript Module Namespace representation of a CommonJS module is always
482a namespace with a <code>default</code> export key pointing to the CommonJS
483<code>module.exports</code> value.</p>
484<p>This Module Namespace Exotic Object can be directly observed either when using
485<code>import * as m from 'cjs'</code> or a dynamic import:</p>
486<!-- eslint-skip -->
487<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> * <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> m <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'cjs'</span>;
488<span class="hljs-variable language_">console</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">log</span>(m);
489<span class="hljs-variable language_">console</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">log</span>(m === <span class="hljs-keyword">await</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">import</span>(<span class="hljs-string">'cjs'</span>));
490<span class="hljs-comment">// Prints:</span>
491<span class="hljs-comment">//   [Module] { default: &#x3C;module.exports> }</span>
492<span class="hljs-comment">//   true</span></code></pre>
493<p>For better compatibility with existing usage in the JS ecosystem, Node.js
494in addition attempts to determine the CommonJS named exports of every imported
495CommonJS module to provide them as separate ES module exports using a static
496analysis process.</p>
497<p>For example, consider a CommonJS module written:</p>
498<pre><code class="language-js cjs"><span class="hljs-comment">// cjs.cjs</span>
499<span class="hljs-built_in">exports</span>.<span class="hljs-property">name</span> = <span class="hljs-string">'exported'</span>;</code></pre>
500<p>The preceding module supports named imports in ES modules:</p>
501<!-- eslint-disable no-duplicate-imports -->
502<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> { name } <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'./cjs.cjs'</span>;
503<span class="hljs-variable language_">console</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">log</span>(name);
504<span class="hljs-comment">// Prints: 'exported'</span>
505
506<span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> cjs <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'./cjs.cjs'</span>;
507<span class="hljs-variable language_">console</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">log</span>(cjs);
508<span class="hljs-comment">// Prints: { name: 'exported' }</span>
509
510<span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> * <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> m <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'./cjs.cjs'</span>;
511<span class="hljs-variable language_">console</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">log</span>(m);
512<span class="hljs-comment">// Prints: [Module] { default: { name: 'exported' }, name: 'exported' }</span></code></pre>
513<p>As can be seen from the last example of the Module Namespace Exotic Object being
514logged, the <code>name</code> export is copied off of the <code>module.exports</code> object and set
515directly on the ES module namespace when the module is imported.</p>
516<p>Live binding updates or new exports added to <code>module.exports</code> are not detected
517for these named exports.</p>
518<p>The detection of named exports is based on common syntax patterns but does not
519always correctly detect named exports. In these cases, using the default
520import form described above can be a better option.</p>
521<p>Named exports detection covers many common export patterns, reexport patterns
522and build tool and transpiler outputs. See <a href="https://github.com/guybedford/cjs-module-lexer/tree/1.2.2">cjs-module-lexer</a> for the exact
523semantics implemented.</p>
524<h4>Differences between ES modules and CommonJS<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_differences_between_es_modules_and_commonjs" id="esm_differences_between_es_modules_and_commonjs">#</a></span></h4>
525<h5>No <code>require</code>, <code>exports</code> or <code>module.exports</code><span><a class="mark" href="#esm_no_require_exports_or_module_exports" id="esm_no_require_exports_or_module_exports">#</a></span></h5>
526<p>In most cases, the ES module <code>import</code> can be used to load CommonJS modules.</p>
527<p>If needed, a <code>require</code> function can be constructed within an ES module using
528<a href="module.html#module_module_createrequire_filename"><code>module.createRequire()</code></a>.</p>
529<h5>No <code>__filename</code> or <code>__dirname</code><span><a class="mark" href="#esm_no_filename_or_dirname" id="esm_no_filename_or_dirname">#</a></span></h5>
530<p>These CommonJS variables are not available in ES modules.</p>
531<p><code>__filename</code> and <code>__dirname</code> use cases can be replicated via
532<a href="#esm_import_meta_url"><code>import.meta.url</code></a>.</p>
533<h5>No JSON Module Loading<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_no_json_module_loading" id="esm_no_json_module_loading">#</a></span></h5>
534<p>JSON imports are still experimental and only supported via the
535<code>--experimental-json-modules</code> flag.</p>
536<p>Local JSON files can be loaded relative to <code>import.meta.url</code> with <code>fs</code> directly:</p>
537<!-- eslint-skip -->
538<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> { readFile } <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'fs/promises'</span>;
539<span class="hljs-keyword">const</span> json = <span class="hljs-variable constant_">JSON</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">parse</span>(<span class="hljs-keyword">await</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">readFile</span>(<span class="hljs-keyword">new</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">URL</span>(<span class="hljs-string">'./dat.json'</span>, <span class="hljs-keyword">import</span>.<span class="hljs-property">meta</span>.<span class="hljs-property">url</span>)));</code></pre>
540<p>Alternatively <code>module.createRequire()</code> can be used.</p>
541<h5>No Native Module Loading<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_no_native_module_loading" id="esm_no_native_module_loading">#</a></span></h5>
542<p>Native modules are not currently supported with ES module imports.</p>
543<p>They can instead be loaded with <a href="module.html#module_module_createrequire_filename"><code>module.createRequire()</code></a> or
544<a href="process.html#process_process_dlopen_module_filename_flags"><code>process.dlopen</code></a>.</p>
545<h5>No <code>require.resolve</code><span><a class="mark" href="#esm_no_require_resolve" id="esm_no_require_resolve">#</a></span></h5>
546<p>Relative resolution can be handled via <code>new URL('./local', import.meta.url)</code>.</p>
547<p>For a complete <code>require.resolve</code> replacement, there is a flagged experimental
548<a href="#esm_import_meta_resolve_specifier_parent"><code>import.meta.resolve</code></a> API.</p>
549<p>Alternatively <code>module.createRequire()</code> can be used.</p>
550<h5>No <code>NODE_PATH</code><span><a class="mark" href="#esm_no_node_path" id="esm_no_node_path">#</a></span></h5>
551<p><code>NODE_PATH</code> is not part of resolving <code>import</code> specifiers. Please use symlinks
552if this behavior is desired.</p>
553<h5>No <code>require.extensions</code><span><a class="mark" href="#esm_no_require_extensions" id="esm_no_require_extensions">#</a></span></h5>
554<p><code>require.extensions</code> is not used by <code>import</code>. The expectation is that loader
555hooks can provide this workflow in the future.</p>
556<h5>No <code>require.cache</code><span><a class="mark" href="#esm_no_require_cache" id="esm_no_require_cache">#</a></span></h5>
557<p><code>require.cache</code> is not used by <code>import</code> as the ES module loader has its own
558separate cache.</p>
559<p><i id="esm_experimental_json_modules"></i></p>
560</section><section><h3>JSON modules<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_json_modules" id="esm_json_modules">#</a></span></h3>
561<p></p><div class="api_stability api_stability_1"><a href="documentation.html#documentation_stability_index">Stability: 1</a> - Experimental</div><p></p>
562<p>Currently importing JSON modules are only supported in the <code>commonjs</code> mode
563and are loaded using the CJS loader. <a href="https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#creating-a-json-module-script">WHATWG JSON modules specification</a> are
564still being standardized, and are experimentally supported by including the
565additional flag <code>--experimental-json-modules</code> when running Node.js.</p>
566<p>When the <code>--experimental-json-modules</code> flag is included, both the
567<code>commonjs</code> and <code>module</code> mode use the new experimental JSON
568loader. The imported JSON only exposes a <code>default</code>. There is no
569support for named exports. A cache entry is created in the CommonJS
570cache to avoid duplication. The same object is returned in
571CommonJS if the JSON module has already been imported from the
572same path.</p>
573<p>Assuming an <code>index.mjs</code> with</p>
574<!-- eslint-skip -->
575<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> packageConfig <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'./package.json'</span>;</code></pre>
576<p>The <code>--experimental-json-modules</code> flag is needed for the module
577to work.</p>
578<pre><code class="language-bash">node index.mjs <span class="hljs-comment"># fails</span>
579node --experimental-json-modules index.mjs <span class="hljs-comment"># works</span></code></pre>
580<p><i id="esm_experimental_wasm_modules"></i></p>
581</section><section><h3>Wasm modules<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_wasm_modules" id="esm_wasm_modules">#</a></span></h3>
582<p></p><div class="api_stability api_stability_1"><a href="documentation.html#documentation_stability_index">Stability: 1</a> - Experimental</div><p></p>
583<p>Importing Web Assembly modules is supported under the
584<code>--experimental-wasm-modules</code> flag, allowing any <code>.wasm</code> files to be
585imported as normal modules while also supporting their module imports.</p>
586<p>This integration is in line with the
587<a href="https://github.com/webassembly/esm-integration">ES Module Integration Proposal for Web Assembly</a>.</p>
588<p>For example, an <code>index.mjs</code> containing:</p>
589<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> * <span class="hljs-keyword">as</span> M <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'./module.wasm'</span>;
590<span class="hljs-variable language_">console</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">log</span>(M);</code></pre>
591<p>executed under:</p>
592<pre><code class="language-bash">node --experimental-wasm-modules index.mjs</code></pre>
593<p>would provide the exports interface for the instantiation of <code>module.wasm</code>.</p>
594<p><i id="esm_experimental_top_level_await"></i></p>
595</section><section><h3>Top-level <code>await</code><span><a class="mark" href="#esm_top_level_await" id="esm_top_level_await">#</a></span></h3>
596<div class="api_metadata">
597<span>Added in: v14.8.0</span>
598</div>
599<p></p><div class="api_stability api_stability_1"><a href="documentation.html#documentation_stability_index">Stability: 1</a> - Experimental</div><p></p>
600<p>The <code>await</code> keyword may be used in the top level body of an ECMAScript module.</p>
601<p>Assuming an <code>a.mjs</code> with</p>
602<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-keyword">export</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">const</span> five = <span class="hljs-keyword">await</span> <span class="hljs-title class_">Promise</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">resolve</span>(<span class="hljs-number">5</span>);</code></pre>
603<p>And a <code>b.mjs</code> with</p>
604<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> { five } <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'./a.mjs'</span>;
605
606<span class="hljs-variable language_">console</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">log</span>(five); <span class="hljs-comment">// Logs `5`</span></code></pre>
607<pre><code class="language-bash">node b.mjs <span class="hljs-comment"># works</span></code></pre>
608<p>If a top level <code>await</code> expression never resolves, the <code>node</code> process will exit
609with a <code>13</code> <a href="process.html#process_exit_codes">status code</a>.</p>
610<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> { spawn } <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'child_process'</span>;
611<span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> { execPath } <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'process'</span>;
612
613<span class="hljs-title function_">spawn</span>(execPath, [
614  <span class="hljs-string">'--input-type=module'</span>,
615  <span class="hljs-string">'--eval'</span>,
616  <span class="hljs-comment">// Never-resolving Promise:</span>
617  <span class="hljs-string">'await new Promise(() => {})'</span>,
618]).<span class="hljs-title function_">once</span>(<span class="hljs-string">'exit'</span>, <span class="hljs-function">(<span class="hljs-params">code</span>) =></span> {
619  <span class="hljs-variable language_">console</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">log</span>(code); <span class="hljs-comment">// Logs `13`</span>
620});</code></pre>
621<p><i id="esm_experimental_loaders"></i></p>
622</section><section><h3>Loaders<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_loaders" id="esm_loaders">#</a></span></h3>
623<p></p><div class="api_stability api_stability_1"><a href="documentation.html#documentation_stability_index">Stability: 1</a> - Experimental</div><p></p>
624<p><strong>Note: This API is currently being redesigned and will still change.</strong></p>
625
626<p>To customize the default module resolution, loader hooks can optionally be
627provided via a <code>--experimental-loader ./loader-name.mjs</code> argument to Node.js.</p>
628<p>When hooks are used they only apply to ES module loading and not to any
629CommonJS modules loaded.</p>
630<h4>Hooks<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_hooks" id="esm_hooks">#</a></span></h4>
631<h5><code>resolve(specifier, context, defaultResolve)</code><span><a class="mark" href="#esm_resolve_specifier_context_defaultresolve" id="esm_resolve_specifier_context_defaultresolve">#</a></span></h5>
632<blockquote>
633<p>Note: The loaders API is being redesigned. This hook may disappear or its
634signature may change. Do not rely on the API described below.</p>
635</blockquote>
636<ul>
637<li><code>specifier</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#String_type" class="type">&#x3C;string></a></li>
638<li><code>context</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object" class="type">&#x3C;Object></a>
639<ul>
640<li><code>conditions</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#String_type" class="type">&#x3C;string[]></a></li>
641<li><code>parentURL</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#String_type" class="type">&#x3C;string></a></li>
642</ul>
643</li>
644<li><code>defaultResolve</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Function" class="type">&#x3C;Function></a></li>
645<li>Returns: <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object" class="type">&#x3C;Object></a>
646<ul>
647<li><code>url</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#String_type" class="type">&#x3C;string></a></li>
648</ul>
649</li>
650</ul>
651<p>The <code>resolve</code> hook returns the resolved file URL for a given module specifier
652and parent URL. The module specifier is the string in an <code>import</code> statement or
653<code>import()</code> expression, and the parent URL is the URL of the module that imported
654this one, or <code>undefined</code> if this is the main entry point for the application.</p>
655<p>The <code>conditions</code> property on the <code>context</code> is an array of conditions for
656<a href="packages.html#packages_conditional_exports">Conditional exports</a> that apply to this resolution request. They can be used
657for looking up conditional mappings elsewhere or to modify the list when calling
658the default resolution logic.</p>
659<p>The current <a href="packages.html#packages_conditional_exports">package exports conditions</a> are always in
660the <code>context.conditions</code> array passed into the hook. To guarantee <em>default
661Node.js module specifier resolution behavior</em> when calling <code>defaultResolve</code>, the
662<code>context.conditions</code> array passed to it <em>must</em> include <em>all</em> elements of the
663<code>context.conditions</code> array originally passed into the <code>resolve</code> hook.</p>
664<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-comment">/**
665 * <span class="hljs-doctag">@param</span> {<span class="hljs-type">string</span>} <span class="hljs-variable">specifier</span>
666 * <span class="hljs-doctag">@param</span> {<span class="hljs-type">{
667 *   conditions: !Array&#x3C;string>,
668 *   parentURL: !(string | undefined),
669 * </span>}} context
670 * <span class="hljs-doctag">@param</span> {<span class="hljs-type">Function</span>} <span class="hljs-variable">defaultResolve</span>
671 * <span class="hljs-doctag">@returns</span> {<span class="hljs-type">Promise&#x3C;{ url: string </span>}>}
672 */</span>
673<span class="hljs-keyword">export</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">async</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">function</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">resolve</span>(<span class="hljs-params">specifier, context, defaultResolve</span>) {
674  <span class="hljs-keyword">const</span> { parentURL = <span class="hljs-literal">null</span> } = context;
675  <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> (<span class="hljs-title class_">Math</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">random</span>() > <span class="hljs-number">0.5</span>) { <span class="hljs-comment">// Some condition.</span>
676    <span class="hljs-comment">// For some or all specifiers, do some custom logic for resolving.</span>
677    <span class="hljs-comment">// Always return an object of the form {url: &#x3C;string>}.</span>
678    <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> {
679      <span class="hljs-attr">url</span>: parentURL ?
680        <span class="hljs-keyword">new</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">URL</span>(specifier, parentURL).<span class="hljs-property">href</span> :
681        <span class="hljs-keyword">new</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">URL</span>(specifier).<span class="hljs-property">href</span>,
682    };
683  }
684  <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> (<span class="hljs-title class_">Math</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">random</span>() &#x3C; <span class="hljs-number">0.5</span>) { <span class="hljs-comment">// Another condition.</span>
685    <span class="hljs-comment">// When calling `defaultResolve`, the arguments can be modified. In this</span>
686    <span class="hljs-comment">// case it's adding another value for matching conditional exports.</span>
687    <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">defaultResolve</span>(specifier, {
688      ...context,
689      <span class="hljs-attr">conditions</span>: [...context.<span class="hljs-property">conditions</span>, <span class="hljs-string">'another-condition'</span>],
690    });
691  }
692  <span class="hljs-comment">// Defer to Node.js for all other specifiers.</span>
693  <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">defaultResolve</span>(specifier, context, defaultResolve);
694}</code></pre>
695<h5><code>getFormat(url, context, defaultGetFormat)</code><span><a class="mark" href="#esm_getformat_url_context_defaultgetformat" id="esm_getformat_url_context_defaultgetformat">#</a></span></h5>
696<blockquote>
697<p>Note: The loaders API is being redesigned. This hook may disappear or its
698signature may change. Do not rely on the API described below.</p>
699</blockquote>
700<ul>
701<li><code>url</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#String_type" class="type">&#x3C;string></a></li>
702<li><code>context</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object" class="type">&#x3C;Object></a></li>
703<li><code>defaultGetFormat</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Function" class="type">&#x3C;Function></a></li>
704<li>Returns: <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object" class="type">&#x3C;Object></a>
705<ul>
706<li><code>format</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#String_type" class="type">&#x3C;string></a></li>
707</ul>
708</li>
709</ul>
710<p>The <code>getFormat</code> hook provides a way to define a custom method of determining how
711a URL should be interpreted. The <code>format</code> returned also affects what the
712acceptable forms of source values are for a module when parsing. This can be one
713of the following:</p>
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749<table><thead><tr><th><code>format</code></th><th>Description</th><th>Acceptable Types For <code>source</code> Returned by <code>getSource</code> or <code>transformSource</code></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>'builtin'</code></td><td>Load a Node.js builtin module</td><td>Not applicable</td></tr><tr><td><code>'commonjs'</code></td><td>Load a Node.js CommonJS module</td><td>Not applicable</td></tr><tr><td><code>'json'</code></td><td>Load a JSON file</td><td>{ <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String"><code>string</code></a>, <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/ArrayBuffer"><code>ArrayBuffer</code></a>, <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/TypedArray"><code>TypedArray</code></a> }</td></tr><tr><td><code>'module'</code></td><td>Load an ES module</td><td>{ <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String"><code>string</code></a>, <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/ArrayBuffer"><code>ArrayBuffer</code></a>, <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/TypedArray"><code>TypedArray</code></a> }</td></tr><tr><td><code>'wasm'</code></td><td>Load a WebAssembly module</td><td>{ <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/ArrayBuffer"><code>ArrayBuffer</code></a>, <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/TypedArray"><code>TypedArray</code></a> }</td></tr></tbody></table>
750<p>Note: These types all correspond to classes defined in ECMAScript.</p>
751<ul>
752<li>The specific <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/ArrayBuffer"><code>ArrayBuffer</code></a> object is a <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/SharedArrayBuffer"><code>SharedArrayBuffer</code></a>.</li>
753<li>The specific <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/TypedArray"><code>TypedArray</code></a> object is a <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Uint8Array"><code>Uint8Array</code></a>.</li>
754</ul>
755<p>Note: If the source value of a text-based format (i.e., <code>'json'</code>, <code>'module'</code>) is
756not a string, it is converted to a string using <a href="util.html#util_class_util_textdecoder"><code>util.TextDecoder</code></a>.</p>
757<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-comment">/**
758 * <span class="hljs-doctag">@param</span> {<span class="hljs-type">string</span>} <span class="hljs-variable">url</span>
759 * <span class="hljs-doctag">@param</span> {<span class="hljs-type">Object</span>} context (currently empty)
760 * <span class="hljs-doctag">@param</span> {<span class="hljs-type">Function</span>} <span class="hljs-variable">defaultGetFormat</span>
761 * <span class="hljs-doctag">@returns</span> {<span class="hljs-type">Promise&#x3C;{ format: string </span>}>}
762 */</span>
763<span class="hljs-keyword">export</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">async</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">function</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">getFormat</span>(<span class="hljs-params">url, context, defaultGetFormat</span>) {
764  <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> (<span class="hljs-title class_">Math</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">random</span>() > <span class="hljs-number">0.5</span>) { <span class="hljs-comment">// Some condition.</span>
765    <span class="hljs-comment">// For some or all URLs, do some custom logic for determining format.</span>
766    <span class="hljs-comment">// Always return an object of the form {format: &#x3C;string>}, where the</span>
767    <span class="hljs-comment">// format is one of the strings in the preceding table.</span>
768    <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> {
769      <span class="hljs-attr">format</span>: <span class="hljs-string">'module'</span>,
770    };
771  }
772  <span class="hljs-comment">// Defer to Node.js for all other URLs.</span>
773  <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">defaultGetFormat</span>(url, context, defaultGetFormat);
774}</code></pre>
775<h5><code>getSource(url, context, defaultGetSource)</code><span><a class="mark" href="#esm_getsource_url_context_defaultgetsource" id="esm_getsource_url_context_defaultgetsource">#</a></span></h5>
776<blockquote>
777<p>Note: The loaders API is being redesigned. This hook may disappear or its
778signature may change. Do not rely on the API described below.</p>
779</blockquote>
780<ul>
781<li><code>url</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#String_type" class="type">&#x3C;string></a></li>
782<li><code>context</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object" class="type">&#x3C;Object></a>
783<ul>
784<li><code>format</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#String_type" class="type">&#x3C;string></a></li>
785</ul>
786</li>
787<li><code>defaultGetSource</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Function" class="type">&#x3C;Function></a></li>
788<li>Returns: <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object" class="type">&#x3C;Object></a>
789<ul>
790<li><code>source</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#String_type" class="type">&#x3C;string></a> | <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/SharedArrayBuffer" class="type">&#x3C;SharedArrayBuffer></a> | <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Uint8Array" class="type">&#x3C;Uint8Array></a></li>
791</ul>
792</li>
793</ul>
794<p>The <code>getSource</code> hook provides a way to define a custom method for retrieving
795the source code of an ES module specifier. This would allow a loader to
796potentially avoid reading files from disk.</p>
797<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-comment">/**
798 * <span class="hljs-doctag">@param</span> {<span class="hljs-type">string</span>} <span class="hljs-variable">url</span>
799 * <span class="hljs-doctag">@param</span> {<span class="hljs-type">{ format: string </span>}} context
800 * <span class="hljs-doctag">@param</span> {<span class="hljs-type">Function</span>} <span class="hljs-variable">defaultGetSource</span>
801 * <span class="hljs-doctag">@returns</span> {<span class="hljs-type">Promise&#x3C;{ source: !(string | SharedArrayBuffer | Uint8Array) </span>}>}
802 */</span>
803<span class="hljs-keyword">export</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">async</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">function</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">getSource</span>(<span class="hljs-params">url, context, defaultGetSource</span>) {
804  <span class="hljs-keyword">const</span> { format } = context;
805  <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> (<span class="hljs-title class_">Math</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">random</span>() > <span class="hljs-number">0.5</span>) { <span class="hljs-comment">// Some condition.</span>
806    <span class="hljs-comment">// For some or all URLs, do some custom logic for retrieving the source.</span>
807    <span class="hljs-comment">// Always return an object of the form {source: &#x3C;string|buffer>}.</span>
808    <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> {
809      <span class="hljs-attr">source</span>: <span class="hljs-string">'...'</span>,
810    };
811  }
812  <span class="hljs-comment">// Defer to Node.js for all other URLs.</span>
813  <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">defaultGetSource</span>(url, context, defaultGetSource);
814}</code></pre>
815<h5><code>transformSource(source, context, defaultTransformSource)</code><span><a class="mark" href="#esm_transformsource_source_context_defaulttransformsource" id="esm_transformsource_source_context_defaulttransformsource">#</a></span></h5>
816<blockquote>
817<p>Note: The loaders API is being redesigned. This hook may disappear or its
818signature may change. Do not rely on the API described below.</p>
819</blockquote>
820<ul>
821<li><code>source</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#String_type" class="type">&#x3C;string></a> | <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/SharedArrayBuffer" class="type">&#x3C;SharedArrayBuffer></a> | <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Uint8Array" class="type">&#x3C;Uint8Array></a></li>
822<li><code>context</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object" class="type">&#x3C;Object></a>
823<ul>
824<li><code>format</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#String_type" class="type">&#x3C;string></a></li>
825<li><code>url</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#String_type" class="type">&#x3C;string></a></li>
826</ul>
827</li>
828<li>Returns: <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object" class="type">&#x3C;Object></a>
829<ul>
830<li><code>source</code> <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#String_type" class="type">&#x3C;string></a> | <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/SharedArrayBuffer" class="type">&#x3C;SharedArrayBuffer></a> | <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Uint8Array" class="type">&#x3C;Uint8Array></a></li>
831</ul>
832</li>
833</ul>
834<p>The <code>transformSource</code> hook provides a way to modify the source code of a loaded
835ES module file after the source string has been loaded but before Node.js has
836done anything with it.</p>
837<p>If this hook is used to convert unknown-to-Node.js file types into executable
838JavaScript, a resolve hook is also necessary in order to register any
839unknown-to-Node.js file extensions. See the <a href="#esm_transpiler_loader">transpiler loader example</a> below.</p>
840<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-comment">/**
841 * <span class="hljs-doctag">@param</span> {<span class="hljs-type">!(string | SharedArrayBuffer | Uint8Array)</span>} <span class="hljs-variable">source</span>
842 * <span class="hljs-doctag">@param</span> {<span class="hljs-type">{
843 *   format: string,
844 *   url: string,
845 * </span>}} context
846 * <span class="hljs-doctag">@param</span> {<span class="hljs-type">Function</span>} <span class="hljs-variable">defaultTransformSource</span>
847 * <span class="hljs-doctag">@returns</span> {<span class="hljs-type">Promise&#x3C;{ source: !(string | SharedArrayBuffer | Uint8Array) </span>}>}
848 */</span>
849<span class="hljs-keyword">export</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">async</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">function</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">transformSource</span>(<span class="hljs-params">source, context, defaultTransformSource</span>) {
850  <span class="hljs-keyword">const</span> { url, format } = context;
851  <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> (<span class="hljs-title class_">Math</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">random</span>() > <span class="hljs-number">0.5</span>) { <span class="hljs-comment">// Some condition.</span>
852    <span class="hljs-comment">// For some or all URLs, do some custom logic for modifying the source.</span>
853    <span class="hljs-comment">// Always return an object of the form {source: &#x3C;string|buffer>}.</span>
854    <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> {
855      <span class="hljs-attr">source</span>: <span class="hljs-string">'...'</span>,
856    };
857  }
858  <span class="hljs-comment">// Defer to Node.js for all other sources.</span>
859  <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">defaultTransformSource</span>(source, context, defaultTransformSource);
860}</code></pre>
861<h5><code>getGlobalPreloadCode()</code><span><a class="mark" href="#esm_getglobalpreloadcode" id="esm_getglobalpreloadcode">#</a></span></h5>
862<blockquote>
863<p>Note: The loaders API is being redesigned. This hook may disappear or its
864signature may change. Do not rely on the API described below.</p>
865</blockquote>
866<ul>
867<li>Returns: <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#String_type" class="type">&#x3C;string></a></li>
868</ul>
869<p>Sometimes it might be necessary to run some code inside of the same global scope
870that the application runs in. This hook allows the return of a string that is
871run as sloppy-mode script on startup.</p>
872<p>Similar to how CommonJS wrappers work, the code runs in an implicit function
873scope. The only argument is a <code>require</code>-like function that can be used to load
874builtins like "fs": <code>getBuiltin(request: string)</code>.</p>
875<p>If the code needs more advanced <code>require</code> features, it has to construct
876its own <code>require</code> using  <code>module.createRequire()</code>.</p>
877<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-comment">/**
878 * <span class="hljs-doctag">@returns</span> {<span class="hljs-type">string</span>} Code to run before application startup
879 */</span>
880<span class="hljs-keyword">export</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">function</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">getGlobalPreloadCode</span>(<span class="hljs-params"></span>) {
881  <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> <span class="hljs-string">`\
882globalThis.someInjectedProperty = 42;
883console.log('I just set some globals!');
884
885const { createRequire } = getBuiltin('module');
886
887const require = createRequire(process.cwd() + '/&#x3C;preload>');
888// [...]
889`</span>;
890}</code></pre>
891<h4>Examples<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_examples" id="esm_examples">#</a></span></h4>
892<p>The various loader hooks can be used together to accomplish wide-ranging
893customizations of Node.js’ code loading and evaluation behaviors.</p>
894<h5>HTTPS loader<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_https_loader" id="esm_https_loader">#</a></span></h5>
895<p>In current Node.js, specifiers starting with <code>https://</code> are unsupported. The
896loader below registers hooks to enable rudimentary support for such specifiers.
897While this may seem like a significant improvement to Node.js core
898functionality, there are substantial downsides to actually using this loader:
899performance is much slower than loading files from disk, there is no caching,
900and there is no security.</p>
901<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-comment">// https-loader.mjs</span>
902<span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> { get } <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'https'</span>;
903
904<span class="hljs-keyword">export</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">function</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">resolve</span>(<span class="hljs-params">specifier, context, defaultResolve</span>) {
905  <span class="hljs-keyword">const</span> { parentURL = <span class="hljs-literal">null</span> } = context;
906
907  <span class="hljs-comment">// Normally Node.js would error on specifiers starting with 'https://', so</span>
908  <span class="hljs-comment">// this hook intercepts them and converts them into absolute URLs to be</span>
909  <span class="hljs-comment">// passed along to the later hooks below.</span>
910  <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> (specifier.<span class="hljs-title function_">startsWith</span>(<span class="hljs-string">'https://'</span>)) {
911    <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> {
912      <span class="hljs-attr">url</span>: specifier
913    };
914  } <span class="hljs-keyword">else</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> (parentURL &#x26;&#x26; parentURL.<span class="hljs-title function_">startsWith</span>(<span class="hljs-string">'https://'</span>)) {
915    <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> {
916      <span class="hljs-attr">url</span>: <span class="hljs-keyword">new</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">URL</span>(specifier, parentURL).<span class="hljs-property">href</span>
917    };
918  }
919
920  <span class="hljs-comment">// Let Node.js handle all other specifiers.</span>
921  <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">defaultResolve</span>(specifier, context, defaultResolve);
922}
923
924<span class="hljs-keyword">export</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">function</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">getFormat</span>(<span class="hljs-params">url, context, defaultGetFormat</span>) {
925  <span class="hljs-comment">// This loader assumes all network-provided JavaScript is ES module code.</span>
926  <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> (url.<span class="hljs-title function_">startsWith</span>(<span class="hljs-string">'https://'</span>)) {
927    <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> {
928      <span class="hljs-attr">format</span>: <span class="hljs-string">'module'</span>
929    };
930  }
931
932  <span class="hljs-comment">// Let Node.js handle all other URLs.</span>
933  <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">defaultGetFormat</span>(url, context, defaultGetFormat);
934}
935
936<span class="hljs-keyword">export</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">function</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">getSource</span>(<span class="hljs-params">url, context, defaultGetSource</span>) {
937  <span class="hljs-comment">// For JavaScript to be loaded over the network, we need to fetch and</span>
938  <span class="hljs-comment">// return it.</span>
939  <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> (url.<span class="hljs-title function_">startsWith</span>(<span class="hljs-string">'https://'</span>)) {
940    <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">new</span> <span class="hljs-title class_">Promise</span>(<span class="hljs-function">(<span class="hljs-params">resolve, reject</span>) =></span> {
941      <span class="hljs-title function_">get</span>(url, <span class="hljs-function">(<span class="hljs-params">res</span>) =></span> {
942        <span class="hljs-keyword">let</span> data = <span class="hljs-string">''</span>;
943        res.<span class="hljs-title function_">on</span>(<span class="hljs-string">'data'</span>, <span class="hljs-function">(<span class="hljs-params">chunk</span>) =></span> data += chunk);
944        res.<span class="hljs-title function_">on</span>(<span class="hljs-string">'end'</span>, <span class="hljs-function">() =></span> <span class="hljs-title function_">resolve</span>({ <span class="hljs-attr">source</span>: data }));
945      }).<span class="hljs-title function_">on</span>(<span class="hljs-string">'error'</span>, <span class="hljs-function">(<span class="hljs-params">err</span>) =></span> <span class="hljs-title function_">reject</span>(err));
946    });
947  }
948
949  <span class="hljs-comment">// Let Node.js handle all other URLs.</span>
950  <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">defaultGetSource</span>(url, context, defaultGetSource);
951}</code></pre>
952<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-comment">// main.mjs</span>
953<span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> { <span class="hljs-variable constant_">VERSION</span> } <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'https://coffeescript.org/browser-compiler-modern/coffeescript.js'</span>;
954
955<span class="hljs-variable language_">console</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">log</span>(<span class="hljs-variable constant_">VERSION</span>);</code></pre>
956<p>With the preceding loader, running
957<code>node --experimental-loader ./https-loader.mjs ./main.mjs</code>
958prints the current version of CoffeeScript per the module at the URL in
959<code>main.mjs</code>.</p>
960<h5>Transpiler loader<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_transpiler_loader" id="esm_transpiler_loader">#</a></span></h5>
961<p>Sources that are in formats Node.js doesn’t understand can be converted into
962JavaScript using the <a href="#esm_transformsource_source_context_defaulttransformsource"><code>transformSource</code> hook</a>. Before that hook gets called,
963however, other hooks need to tell Node.js not to throw an error on unknown file
964types; and to tell Node.js how to load this new file type.</p>
965<p>This is less performant than transpiling source files before running
966Node.js; a transpiler loader should only be used for development and testing
967purposes.</p>
968<pre><code class="language-js"><span class="hljs-comment">// coffeescript-loader.mjs</span>
969<span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> { <span class="hljs-variable constant_">URL</span>, pathToFileURL } <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'url'</span>;
970<span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> <span class="hljs-title class_">CoffeeScript</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'coffeescript'</span>;
971
972<span class="hljs-keyword">const</span> baseURL = <span class="hljs-title function_">pathToFileURL</span>(<span class="hljs-string">`<span class="hljs-subst">${process.cwd()}</span>/`</span>).<span class="hljs-property">href</span>;
973
974<span class="hljs-comment">// CoffeeScript files end in .coffee, .litcoffee or .coffee.md.</span>
975<span class="hljs-keyword">const</span> extensionsRegex = <span class="hljs-regexp">/\.coffee$|\.litcoffee$|\.coffee\.md$/</span>;
976
977<span class="hljs-keyword">export</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">function</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">resolve</span>(<span class="hljs-params">specifier, context, defaultResolve</span>) {
978  <span class="hljs-keyword">const</span> { parentURL = baseURL } = context;
979
980  <span class="hljs-comment">// Node.js normally errors on unknown file extensions, so return a URL for</span>
981  <span class="hljs-comment">// specifiers ending in the CoffeeScript file extensions.</span>
982  <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> (extensionsRegex.<span class="hljs-title function_">test</span>(specifier)) {
983    <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> {
984      <span class="hljs-attr">url</span>: <span class="hljs-keyword">new</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">URL</span>(specifier, parentURL).<span class="hljs-property">href</span>
985    };
986  }
987
988  <span class="hljs-comment">// Let Node.js handle all other specifiers.</span>
989  <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">defaultResolve</span>(specifier, context, defaultResolve);
990}
991
992<span class="hljs-keyword">export</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">function</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">getFormat</span>(<span class="hljs-params">url, context, defaultGetFormat</span>) {
993  <span class="hljs-comment">// Now that we patched resolve to let CoffeeScript URLs through, we need to</span>
994  <span class="hljs-comment">// tell Node.js what format such URLs should be interpreted as. For the</span>
995  <span class="hljs-comment">// purposes of this loader, all CoffeeScript URLs are ES modules.</span>
996  <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> (extensionsRegex.<span class="hljs-title function_">test</span>(url)) {
997    <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> {
998      <span class="hljs-attr">format</span>: <span class="hljs-string">'module'</span>
999    };
1000  }
1001
1002  <span class="hljs-comment">// Let Node.js handle all other URLs.</span>
1003  <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">defaultGetFormat</span>(url, context, defaultGetFormat);
1004}
1005
1006<span class="hljs-keyword">export</span> <span class="hljs-keyword">function</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">transformSource</span>(<span class="hljs-params">source, context, defaultTransformSource</span>) {
1007  <span class="hljs-keyword">const</span> { url, format } = context;
1008
1009  <span class="hljs-keyword">if</span> (extensionsRegex.<span class="hljs-title function_">test</span>(url)) {
1010    <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> {
1011      <span class="hljs-attr">source</span>: <span class="hljs-title class_">CoffeeScript</span>.<span class="hljs-title function_">compile</span>(source, { <span class="hljs-attr">bare</span>: <span class="hljs-literal">true</span> })
1012    };
1013  }
1014
1015  <span class="hljs-comment">// Let Node.js handle all other sources.</span>
1016  <span class="hljs-keyword">return</span> <span class="hljs-title function_">defaultTransformSource</span>(source, context, defaultTransformSource);
1017}</code></pre>
1018<pre><code class="language-coffee"><span class="hljs-comment"># main.coffee</span>
1019<span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> { scream } <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'./scream.coffee'</span>
1020console.log scream <span class="hljs-string">'hello, world'</span>
1021
1022<span class="hljs-keyword">import</span> { version } <span class="hljs-keyword">from</span> <span class="hljs-string">'process'</span>
1023console.log <span class="hljs-string">"Brought to you by Node.js version <span class="hljs-subst">#{version}</span>"</span></code></pre>
1024<pre><code class="language-coffee"><span class="hljs-comment"># scream.coffee</span>
1025<span class="hljs-keyword">export</span> scream = <span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-params">(str)</span> -></span> str.toUpperCase()</code></pre>
1026<p>With the preceding loader, running
1027<code>node --experimental-loader ./coffeescript-loader.mjs main.coffee</code>
1028causes <code>main.coffee</code> to be turned into JavaScript after its source code is
1029loaded from disk but before Node.js executes it; and so on for any <code>.coffee</code>,
1030<code>.litcoffee</code> or <code>.coffee.md</code> files referenced via <code>import</code> statements of any
1031loaded file.</p>
1032</section><section><h3>Resolution algorithm<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_resolution_algorithm" id="esm_resolution_algorithm">#</a></span></h3>
1033<h4>Features<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_features" id="esm_features">#</a></span></h4>
1034<p>The resolver has the following properties:</p>
1035<ul>
1036<li>FileURL-based resolution as is used by ES modules</li>
1037<li>Support for builtin module loading</li>
1038<li>Relative and absolute URL resolution</li>
1039<li>No default extensions</li>
1040<li>No folder mains</li>
1041<li>Bare specifier package resolution lookup through node_modules</li>
1042</ul>
1043<h4>Resolver algorithm<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_resolver_algorithm" id="esm_resolver_algorithm">#</a></span></h4>
1044<p>The algorithm to load an ES module specifier is given through the
1045<strong>ESM_RESOLVE</strong> method below. It returns the resolved URL for a
1046module specifier relative to a parentURL.</p>
1047<p>The algorithm to determine the module format of a resolved URL is
1048provided by <strong>ESM_FORMAT</strong>, which returns the unique module
1049format for any file. The <em>"module"</em> format is returned for an ECMAScript
1050Module, while the <em>"commonjs"</em> format is used to indicate loading through the
1051legacy CommonJS loader. Additional formats such as <em>"addon"</em> can be extended in
1052future updates.</p>
1053<p>In the following algorithms, all subroutine errors are propagated as errors
1054of these top-level routines unless stated otherwise.</p>
1055<p><em>defaultConditions</em> is the conditional environment name array,
1056<code>["node", "import"]</code>.</p>
1057<p>The resolver can throw the following errors:</p>
1058<ul>
1059<li><em>Invalid Module Specifier</em>: Module specifier is an invalid URL, package name
1060or package subpath specifier.</li>
1061<li><em>Invalid Package Configuration</em>: package.json configuration is invalid or
1062contains an invalid configuration.</li>
1063<li><em>Invalid Package Target</em>: Package exports or imports define a target module
1064for the package that is an invalid type or string target.</li>
1065<li><em>Package Path Not Exported</em>: Package exports do not define or permit a target
1066subpath in the package for the given module.</li>
1067<li><em>Package Import Not Defined</em>: Package imports do not define the specifier.</li>
1068<li><em>Module Not Found</em>: The package or module requested does not exist.</li>
1069<li><em>Unsupported Directory Import</em>: The resolved path corresponds to a directory,
1070which is not a supported target for module imports.</li>
1071</ul>
1072<h4>Resolver Algorithm Specification<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_resolver_algorithm_specification" id="esm_resolver_algorithm_specification">#</a></span></h4>
1073<p><strong>ESM_RESOLVE</strong>(<em>specifier</em>, <em>parentURL</em>)</p>
1074<blockquote>
1075<ol>
1076<li>Let <em>resolved</em> be <strong>undefined</strong>.</li>
1077<li>If <em>specifier</em> is a valid URL, then
1078<ol>
1079<li>Set <em>resolved</em> to the result of parsing and reserializing
1080<em>specifier</em> as a URL.</li>
1081</ol>
1082</li>
1083<li>Otherwise, if <em>specifier</em> starts with <em>"/"</em>, <em>"./"</em> or <em>"../"</em>, then
1084<ol>
1085<li>Set <em>resolved</em> to the URL resolution of <em>specifier</em> relative to
1086<em>parentURL</em>.</li>
1087</ol>
1088</li>
1089<li>Otherwise, if <em>specifier</em> starts with <em>"#"</em>, then
1090<ol>
1091<li>Set <em>resolved</em> to the destructured value of the result of
1092<strong>PACKAGE_IMPORTS_RESOLVE</strong>(<em>specifier</em>, <em>parentURL</em>,
1093<em>defaultConditions</em>).</li>
1094</ol>
1095</li>
1096<li>Otherwise,
1097<ol>
1098<li>Note: <em>specifier</em> is now a bare specifier.</li>
1099<li>Set <em>resolved</em> the result of
1100<strong>PACKAGE_RESOLVE</strong>(<em>specifier</em>, <em>parentURL</em>).</li>
1101</ol>
1102</li>
1103<li>If <em>resolved</em> contains any percent encodings of <em>"/"</em> or <em>"\"</em> (<em>"%2f"</em>
1104and <em>"%5C"</em> respectively), then
1105<ol>
1106<li>Throw an <em>Invalid Module Specifier</em> error.</li>
1107</ol>
1108</li>
1109<li>If the file at <em>resolved</em> is a directory, then
1110<ol>
1111<li>Throw an <em>Unsupported Directory Import</em> error.</li>
1112</ol>
1113</li>
1114<li>If the file at <em>resolved</em> does not exist, then
1115<ol>
1116<li>Throw a <em>Module Not Found</em> error.</li>
1117</ol>
1118</li>
1119<li>Set <em>resolved</em> to the real path of <em>resolved</em>.</li>
1120<li>Let <em>format</em> be the result of <strong>ESM_FORMAT</strong>(<em>resolved</em>).</li>
1121<li>Load <em>resolved</em> as module format, <em>format</em>.</li>
1122<li>Return <em>resolved</em>.</li>
1123</ol>
1124</blockquote>
1125<p><strong>PACKAGE_RESOLVE</strong>(<em>packageSpecifier</em>, <em>parentURL</em>)</p>
1126<blockquote>
1127<ol>
1128<li>Let <em>packageName</em> be <strong>undefined</strong>.</li>
1129<li>If <em>packageSpecifier</em> is an empty string, then
1130<ol>
1131<li>Throw an <em>Invalid Module Specifier</em> error.</li>
1132</ol>
1133</li>
1134<li>If <em>packageSpecifier</em> does not start with <em>"@"</em>, then
1135<ol>
1136<li>Set <em>packageName</em> to the substring of <em>packageSpecifier</em> until the first
1137<em>"/"</em> separator or the end of the string.</li>
1138</ol>
1139</li>
1140<li>Otherwise,
1141<ol>
1142<li>If <em>packageSpecifier</em> does not contain a <em>"/"</em> separator, then
1143<ol>
1144<li>Throw an <em>Invalid Module Specifier</em> error.</li>
1145</ol>
1146</li>
1147<li>Set <em>packageName</em> to the substring of <em>packageSpecifier</em>
1148until the second <em>"/"</em> separator or the end of the string.</li>
1149</ol>
1150</li>
1151<li>If <em>packageName</em> starts with <em>"."</em> or contains <em>"\"</em> or <em>"%"</em>, then
1152<ol>
1153<li>Throw an <em>Invalid Module Specifier</em> error.</li>
1154</ol>
1155</li>
1156<li>Let <em>packageSubpath</em> be <em>"."</em> concatenated with the substring of
1157<em>packageSpecifier</em> from the position at the length of <em>packageName</em>.</li>
1158<li>Let <em>selfUrl</em> be the result of
1159<strong>PACKAGE_SELF_RESOLVE</strong>(<em>packageName</em>, <em>packageSubpath</em>, <em>parentURL</em>).</li>
1160<li>If <em>selfUrl</em> is not <strong>undefined</strong>, return <em>selfUrl</em>.</li>
1161<li>If <em>packageSubpath</em> is <em>"."</em> and <em>packageName</em> is a Node.js builtin
1162module, then
1163<ol>
1164<li>Return the string <em>"node:"</em> concatenated with <em>packageSpecifier</em>.</li>
1165</ol>
1166</li>
1167<li>While <em>parentURL</em> is not the file system root,
1168<ol>
1169<li>Let <em>packageURL</em> be the URL resolution of <em>"node_modules/"</em>
1170concatenated with <em>packageSpecifier</em>, relative to <em>parentURL</em>.</li>
1171<li>Set <em>parentURL</em> to the parent folder URL of <em>parentURL</em>.</li>
1172<li>If the folder at <em>packageURL</em> does not exist, then
1173<ol>
1174<li>Set <em>parentURL</em> to the parent URL path of <em>parentURL</em>.</li>
1175<li>Continue the next loop iteration.</li>
1176</ol>
1177</li>
1178<li>Let <em>pjson</em> be the result of <strong>READ_PACKAGE_JSON</strong>(<em>packageURL</em>).</li>
1179<li>If <em>pjson</em> is not <strong>null</strong> and <em>pjson</em>.<em>exports</em> is not <strong>null</strong> or
1180<strong>undefined</strong>, then
1181<ol>
1182<li>Let <em>exports</em> be <em>pjson.exports</em>.</li>
1183<li>Return the <em>resolved</em> destructured value of the result of
1184<strong>PACKAGE_EXPORTS_RESOLVE</strong>(<em>packageURL</em>, <em>packageSubpath</em>,
1185<em>pjson.exports</em>, <em>defaultConditions</em>).</li>
1186</ol>
1187</li>
1188<li>Otherwise, if <em>packageSubpath</em> is equal to <em>"."</em>, then
1189<ol>
1190<li>Return the result applying the legacy <strong>LOAD_AS_DIRECTORY</strong>
1191CommonJS resolver to <em>packageURL</em>, throwing a <em>Module Not Found</em>
1192error for no resolution.</li>
1193</ol>
1194</li>
1195<li>Otherwise,
1196<ol>
1197<li>Return the URL resolution of <em>packageSubpath</em> in <em>packageURL</em>.</li>
1198</ol>
1199</li>
1200</ol>
1201</li>
1202<li>Throw a <em>Module Not Found</em> error.</li>
1203</ol>
1204</blockquote>
1205<p><strong>PACKAGE_SELF_RESOLVE</strong>(<em>packageName</em>, <em>packageSubpath</em>, <em>parentURL</em>)</p>
1206<blockquote>
1207<ol>
1208<li>Let <em>packageURL</em> be the result of <strong>READ_PACKAGE_SCOPE</strong>(<em>parentURL</em>).</li>
1209<li>If <em>packageURL</em> is <strong>null</strong>, then
1210<ol>
1211<li>Return <strong>undefined</strong>.</li>
1212</ol>
1213</li>
1214<li>Let <em>pjson</em> be the result of <strong>READ_PACKAGE_JSON</strong>(<em>packageURL</em>).</li>
1215<li>If <em>pjson</em> is <strong>null</strong> or if <em>pjson</em>.<em>exports</em> is <strong>null</strong> or
1216<strong>undefined</strong>, then
1217<ol>
1218<li>Return <strong>undefined</strong>.</li>
1219</ol>
1220</li>
1221<li>If <em>pjson.name</em> is equal to <em>packageName</em>, then
1222<ol>
1223<li>Return the <em>resolved</em> destructured value of the result of
1224<strong>PACKAGE_EXPORTS_RESOLVE</strong>(<em>packageURL</em>, <em>subpath</em>, <em>pjson.exports</em>,
1225<em>defaultConditions</em>).</li>
1226</ol>
1227</li>
1228<li>Otherwise, return <strong>undefined</strong>.</li>
1229</ol>
1230</blockquote>
1231<p><strong>PACKAGE_EXPORTS_RESOLVE</strong>(<em>packageURL</em>, <em>subpath</em>, <em>exports</em>, <em>conditions</em>)</p>
1232<blockquote>
1233<ol>
1234<li>If <em>exports</em> is an Object with both a key starting with <em>"."</em> and a key not
1235starting with <em>"."</em>, throw an <em>Invalid Package Configuration</em> error.</li>
1236<li>If <em>subpath</em> is equal to <em>"."</em>, then
1237<ol>
1238<li>Let <em>mainExport</em> be <strong>undefined</strong>.</li>
1239<li>If <em>exports</em> is a String or Array, or an Object containing no keys
1240starting with <em>"."</em>, then
1241<ol>
1242<li>Set <em>mainExport</em> to <em>exports</em>.</li>
1243</ol>
1244</li>
1245<li>Otherwise if <em>exports</em> is an Object containing a <em>"."</em> property, then
1246<ol>
1247<li>Set <em>mainExport</em> to <em>exports</em>[<em>"."</em>].</li>
1248</ol>
1249</li>
1250<li>If <em>mainExport</em> is not <strong>undefined</strong>, then
1251<ol>
1252<li>Let <em>resolved</em> be the result of <strong>PACKAGE_TARGET_RESOLVE</strong>(
1253<em>packageURL</em>, <em>mainExport</em>, <em>""</em>, <strong>false</strong>, <strong>false</strong>,
1254<em>conditions</em>).</li>
1255<li>If <em>resolved</em> is not <strong>null</strong> or <strong>undefined</strong>, then
1256<ol>
1257<li>Return <em>resolved</em>.</li>
1258</ol>
1259</li>
1260</ol>
1261</li>
1262</ol>
1263</li>
1264<li>Otherwise, if <em>exports</em> is an Object and all keys of <em>exports</em> start with
1265<em>"."</em>, then
1266<ol>
1267<li>Let <em>matchKey</em> be the string <em>"./"</em> concatenated with <em>subpath</em>.</li>
1268<li>Let <em>resolvedMatch</em> be result of <strong>PACKAGE_IMPORTS_EXPORTS_RESOLVE</strong>(
1269<em>matchKey</em>, <em>exports</em>, <em>packageURL</em>, <strong>false</strong>, <em>conditions</em>).</li>
1270<li>If <em>resolvedMatch</em>.<em>resolve</em> is not <strong>null</strong> or <strong>undefined</strong>, then
1271<ol>
1272<li>Return <em>resolvedMatch</em>.</li>
1273</ol>
1274</li>
1275</ol>
1276</li>
1277<li>Throw a <em>Package Path Not Exported</em> error.</li>
1278</ol>
1279</blockquote>
1280<p><strong>PACKAGE_IMPORTS_RESOLVE</strong>(<em>specifier</em>, <em>parentURL</em>, <em>conditions</em>)</p>
1281<blockquote>
1282<ol>
1283<li>Assert: <em>specifier</em> begins with <em>"#"</em>.</li>
1284<li>If <em>specifier</em> is exactly equal to <em>"#"</em> or starts with <em>"#/"</em>, then
1285<ol>
1286<li>Throw an <em>Invalid Module Specifier</em> error.</li>
1287</ol>
1288</li>
1289<li>Let <em>packageURL</em> be the result of <strong>READ_PACKAGE_SCOPE</strong>(<em>parentURL</em>).</li>
1290<li>If <em>packageURL</em> is not <strong>null</strong>, then
1291<ol>
1292<li>Let <em>pjson</em> be the result of <strong>READ_PACKAGE_JSON</strong>(<em>packageURL</em>).</li>
1293<li>If <em>pjson.imports</em> is a non-null Object, then
1294<ol>
1295<li>Let <em>resolvedMatch</em> be the result of
1296<strong>PACKAGE_IMPORTS_EXPORTS_RESOLVE</strong>(<em>specifier</em>, <em>pjson.imports</em>,
1297<em>packageURL</em>, <strong>true</strong>, <em>conditions</em>).</li>
1298<li>If <em>resolvedMatch</em>.<em>resolve</em> is not <strong>null</strong> or <strong>undefined</strong>, then
1299<ol>
1300<li>Return <em>resolvedMatch</em>.</li>
1301</ol>
1302</li>
1303</ol>
1304</li>
1305</ol>
1306</li>
1307<li>Throw a <em>Package Import Not Defined</em> error.</li>
1308</ol>
1309</blockquote>
1310<p><strong>PACKAGE_IMPORTS_EXPORTS_RESOLVE</strong>(<em>matchKey</em>, <em>matchObj</em>, <em>packageURL</em>,
1311<em>isImports</em>, <em>conditions</em>)</p>
1312<blockquote>
1313<ol>
1314<li>If <em>matchKey</em> is a key of <em>matchObj</em> and does not end in <em>"/"</em> or contain
1315<em>"*"</em>, then
1316<ol>
1317<li>Let <em>target</em> be the value of <em>matchObj</em>[<em>matchKey</em>].</li>
1318<li>Let <em>resolved</em> be the result of <strong>PACKAGE_TARGET_RESOLVE</strong>(
1319<em>packageURL</em>, <em>target</em>, <em>""</em>, <strong>false</strong>, <em>isImports</em>, <em>conditions</em>).</li>
1320<li>Return the object <em>{ resolved, exact: <strong>true</strong> }</em>.</li>
1321</ol>
1322</li>
1323<li>Let <em>expansionKeys</em> be the list of keys of <em>matchObj</em> either ending in
1324<em>"/"</em> or containing only a single <em>"*"</em>, sorted by the sorting function
1325<strong>PATTERN_KEY_COMPARE</strong> which orders in descending order of specificity.</li>
1326<li>For each key <em>expansionKey</em> in <em>expansionKeys</em>, do
1327<ol>
1328<li>Let <em>patternBase</em> be <strong>null</strong>.</li>
1329<li>If <em>expansionKey</em> contains <em>"*"</em>, set <em>patternBase</em> to the substring of
1330<em>expansionKey</em> up to but excluding the first <em>"*"</em> character.</li>
1331<li>If <em>patternBase</em> is not <strong>null</strong> and <em>matchKey</em> starts with but is not
1332equal to <em>patternBase</em>, then
1333<ol>
1334<li>Let <em>patternTrailer</em> be the substring of <em>expansionKey</em> from the
1335index after the first <em>"*"</em> character.</li>
1336<li>If <em>patternTrailer</em> has zero length, or if <em>matchKey</em> ends with
1337<em>patternTrailer</em> and the length of <em>matchKey</em> is greater than or
1338equal to the length of <em>expansionKey</em>, then
1339<ol>
1340<li>Let <em>target</em> be the value of <em>matchObj</em>[<em>expansionKey</em>].</li>
1341<li>Let <em>subpath</em> be the substring of <em>matchKey</em> starting at the
1342index of the length of <em>patternBase</em> up to the length of
1343<em>matchKey</em> minus the length of <em>patternTrailer</em>.</li>
1344<li>Let <em>resolved</em> be the result of <strong>PACKAGE_TARGET_RESOLVE</strong>(
1345<em>packageURL</em>, <em>target</em>, <em>subpath</em>, <strong>true</strong>, <em>isImports</em>,
1346<em>conditions</em>).</li>
1347<li>Return the object <em>{ resolved, exact: <strong>true</strong> }</em>.</li>
1348</ol>
1349</li>
1350</ol>
1351</li>
1352<li>Otherwise if <em>patternBase</em> is <strong>null</strong> and <em>matchKey</em> starts with
1353<em>expansionKey</em>, then
1354<ol>
1355<li>Let <em>target</em> be the value of <em>matchObj</em>[<em>expansionKey</em>].</li>
1356<li>Let <em>subpath</em> be the substring of <em>matchKey</em> starting at the
1357index of the length of <em>expansionKey</em>.</li>
1358<li>Let <em>resolved</em> be the result of <strong>PACKAGE_TARGET_RESOLVE</strong>(
1359<em>packageURL</em>, <em>target</em>, <em>subpath</em>, <strong>false</strong>, <em>isImports</em>,
1360<em>conditions</em>).</li>
1361<li>Return the object <em>{ resolved, exact: <strong>false</strong> }</em>.</li>
1362</ol>
1363</li>
1364</ol>
1365</li>
1366<li>Return the object <em>{ resolved: <strong>null</strong>, exact: <strong>true</strong> }</em>.</li>
1367</ol>
1368</blockquote>
1369<p><strong>PATTERN_KEY_COMPARE</strong>(<em>keyA</em>, <em>keyB</em>)</p>
1370<blockquote>
1371<ol>
1372<li>Assert: <em>keyA</em> ends with <em>"/"</em> or contains only a single <em>"*"</em>.</li>
1373<li>Assert: <em>keyB</em> ends with <em>"/"</em> or contains only a single <em>"*"</em>.</li>
1374<li>Let <em>baseLengthA</em> be the index of <em>"*"</em> in <em>keyA</em> plus one, if <em>keyA</em>
1375contains <em>"*"</em>, or the length of <em>keyA</em> otherwise.</li>
1376<li>Let <em>baseLengthB</em> be the index of <em>"*"</em> in <em>keyB</em> plus one, if <em>keyB</em>
1377contains <em>"*"</em>, or the length of <em>keyB</em> otherwise.</li>
1378<li>If <em>baseLengthA</em> is greater than <em>baseLengthB</em>, return -1.</li>
1379<li>If <em>baseLengthB</em> is greater than <em>baseLengthA</em>, return 1.</li>
1380<li>If <em>keyA</em> does not contain <em>"*"</em>, return 1.</li>
1381<li>If <em>keyB</em> does not contain <em>"*"</em>, return -1.</li>
1382<li>If the length of <em>keyA</em> is greater than the length of <em>keyB</em>, return -1.</li>
1383<li>If the length of <em>keyB</em> is greater than the length of <em>keyA</em>, return 1.</li>
1384<li>Return 0.</li>
1385</ol>
1386</blockquote>
1387<p><strong>PACKAGE_TARGET_RESOLVE</strong>(<em>packageURL</em>, <em>target</em>, <em>subpath</em>, <em>pattern</em>,
1388<em>internal</em>, <em>conditions</em>)</p>
1389<blockquote>
1390<ol>
1391<li>If <em>target</em> is a String, then
1392<ol>
1393<li>If <em>pattern</em> is <strong>false</strong>, <em>subpath</em> has non-zero length and <em>target</em>
1394does not end with <em>"/"</em>, throw an <em>Invalid Module Specifier</em> error.</li>
1395<li>If <em>target</em> does not start with <em>"./"</em>, then
1396<ol>
1397<li>If <em>internal</em> is <strong>true</strong> and <em>target</em> does not start with <em>"../"</em> or
1398<em>"/"</em> and is not a valid URL, then
1399<ol>
1400<li>If <em>pattern</em> is <strong>true</strong>, then
1401<ol>
1402<li>Return <strong>PACKAGE_RESOLVE</strong>(<em>target</em> with every instance of
1403<em>"*"</em> replaced by <em>subpath</em>, <em>packageURL</em> + <em>"/"</em>)_.</li>
1404</ol>
1405</li>
1406<li>Return <strong>PACKAGE_RESOLVE</strong>(<em>target</em> + <em>subpath</em>,
1407<em>packageURL</em> + <em>"/"</em>)_.</li>
1408</ol>
1409</li>
1410<li>Otherwise, throw an <em>Invalid Package Target</em> error.</li>
1411</ol>
1412</li>
1413<li>If <em>target</em> split on <em>"/"</em> or <em>"\"</em> contains any <em>"."</em>, <em>".."</em> or
1414<em>"node_modules"</em> segments after the first segment, throw an
1415<em>Invalid Package Target</em> error.</li>
1416<li>Let <em>resolvedTarget</em> be the URL resolution of the concatenation of
1417<em>packageURL</em> and <em>target</em>.</li>
1418<li>Assert: <em>resolvedTarget</em> is contained in <em>packageURL</em>.</li>
1419<li>If <em>subpath</em> split on <em>"/"</em> or <em>"\"</em> contains any <em>"."</em>, <em>".."</em> or
1420<em>"node_modules"</em> segments, throw an <em>Invalid Module Specifier</em> error.</li>
1421<li>If <em>pattern</em> is <strong>true</strong>, then
1422<ol>
1423<li>Return the URL resolution of <em>resolvedTarget</em> with every instance of
1424<em>"*"</em> replaced with <em>subpath</em>.</li>
1425</ol>
1426</li>
1427<li>Otherwise,
1428<ol>
1429<li>Return the URL resolution of the concatenation of <em>subpath</em> and
1430<em>resolvedTarget</em>.</li>
1431</ol>
1432</li>
1433</ol>
1434</li>
1435<li>Otherwise, if <em>target</em> is a non-null Object, then
1436<ol>
1437<li>If <em>exports</em> contains any index property keys, as defined in ECMA-262
1438<a href="https://tc39.es/ecma262/#integer-index">6.1.7 Array Index</a>, throw an <em>Invalid Package Configuration</em> error.</li>
1439<li>For each property <em>p</em> of <em>target</em>, in object insertion order as,
1440<ol>
1441<li>If <em>p</em> equals <em>"default"</em> or <em>conditions</em> contains an entry for <em>p</em>,
1442then
1443<ol>
1444<li>Let <em>targetValue</em> be the value of the <em>p</em> property in <em>target</em>.</li>
1445<li>Let <em>resolved</em> be the result of <strong>PACKAGE_TARGET_RESOLVE</strong>(
1446<em>packageURL</em>, <em>targetValue</em>, <em>subpath</em>, <em>pattern</em>, <em>internal</em>,
1447<em>conditions</em>).</li>
1448<li>If <em>resolved</em> is equal to <strong>undefined</strong>, continue the loop.</li>
1449<li>Return <em>resolved</em>.</li>
1450</ol>
1451</li>
1452</ol>
1453</li>
1454<li>Return <strong>undefined</strong>.</li>
1455</ol>
1456</li>
1457<li>Otherwise, if <em>target</em> is an Array, then
1458<ol>
1459<li>If _target.length is zero, return <strong>null</strong>.</li>
1460<li>For each item <em>targetValue</em> in <em>target</em>, do
1461<ol>
1462<li>Let <em>resolved</em> be the result of <strong>PACKAGE_TARGET_RESOLVE</strong>(
1463<em>packageURL</em>, <em>targetValue</em>, <em>subpath</em>, <em>pattern</em>, <em>internal</em>,
1464<em>conditions</em>), continuing the loop on any <em>Invalid Package Target</em>
1465error.</li>
1466<li>If <em>resolved</em> is <strong>undefined</strong>, continue the loop.</li>
1467<li>Return <em>resolved</em>.</li>
1468</ol>
1469</li>
1470<li>Return or throw the last fallback resolution <strong>null</strong> return or error.</li>
1471</ol>
1472</li>
1473<li>Otherwise, if <em>target</em> is <em>null</em>, return <strong>null</strong>.</li>
1474<li>Otherwise throw an <em>Invalid Package Target</em> error.</li>
1475</ol>
1476</blockquote>
1477<p><strong>ESM_FORMAT</strong>(<em>url</em>)</p>
1478<blockquote>
1479<ol>
1480<li>Assert: <em>url</em> corresponds to an existing file.</li>
1481<li>Let <em>pjson</em> be the result of <strong>READ_PACKAGE_SCOPE</strong>(<em>url</em>).</li>
1482<li>If <em>url</em> ends in <em>".mjs"</em>, then
1483<ol>
1484<li>Return <em>"module"</em>.</li>
1485</ol>
1486</li>
1487<li>If <em>url</em> ends in <em>".cjs"</em>, then
1488<ol>
1489<li>Return <em>"commonjs"</em>.</li>
1490</ol>
1491</li>
1492<li>If <em>pjson?.type</em> exists and is <em>"module"</em>, then
1493<ol>
1494<li>If <em>url</em> ends in <em>".js"</em>, then
1495<ol>
1496<li>Return <em>"module"</em>.</li>
1497</ol>
1498</li>
1499<li>Throw an <em>Unsupported File Extension</em> error.</li>
1500</ol>
1501</li>
1502<li>Otherwise,
1503<ol>
1504<li>Throw an <em>Unsupported File Extension</em> error.</li>
1505</ol>
1506</li>
1507</ol>
1508</blockquote>
1509<p><strong>READ_PACKAGE_SCOPE</strong>(<em>url</em>)</p>
1510<blockquote>
1511<ol>
1512<li>Let <em>scopeURL</em> be <em>url</em>.</li>
1513<li>While <em>scopeURL</em> is not the file system root,
1514<ol>
1515<li>Set <em>scopeURL</em> to the parent URL of <em>scopeURL</em>.</li>
1516<li>If <em>scopeURL</em> ends in a <em>"node_modules"</em> path segment, return <strong>null</strong>.</li>
1517<li>Let <em>pjson</em> be the result of <strong>READ_PACKAGE_JSON</strong>(<em>scopeURL</em>).</li>
1518<li>If <em>pjson</em> is not <strong>null</strong>, then
1519<ol>
1520<li>Return <em>pjson</em>.</li>
1521</ol>
1522</li>
1523</ol>
1524</li>
1525<li>Return <strong>null</strong>.</li>
1526</ol>
1527</blockquote>
1528<p><strong>READ_PACKAGE_JSON</strong>(<em>packageURL</em>)</p>
1529<blockquote>
1530<ol>
1531<li>Let <em>pjsonURL</em> be the resolution of <em>"package.json"</em> within <em>packageURL</em>.</li>
1532<li>If the file at <em>pjsonURL</em> does not exist, then
1533<ol>
1534<li>Return <strong>null</strong>.</li>
1535</ol>
1536</li>
1537<li>If the file at <em>packageURL</em> does not parse as valid JSON, then
1538<ol>
1539<li>Throw an <em>Invalid Package Configuration</em> error.</li>
1540</ol>
1541</li>
1542<li>Return the parsed JSON source of the file at <em>pjsonURL</em>.</li>
1543</ol>
1544</blockquote>
1545<h4>Customizing ESM specifier resolution algorithm<span><a class="mark" href="#esm_customizing_esm_specifier_resolution_algorithm" id="esm_customizing_esm_specifier_resolution_algorithm">#</a></span></h4>
1546<p></p><div class="api_stability api_stability_1"><a href="documentation.html#documentation_stability_index">Stability: 1</a> - Experimental</div><p></p>
1547<p>The current specifier resolution does not support all default behavior of
1548the CommonJS loader. One of the behavior differences is automatic resolution
1549of file extensions and the ability to import directories that have an index
1550file.</p>
1551<p>The <code>--experimental-specifier-resolution=[mode]</code> flag can be used to customize
1552the extension resolution algorithm. The default mode is <code>explicit</code>, which
1553requires the full path to a module be provided to the loader. To enable the
1554automatic extension resolution and importing from directories that include an
1555index file use the <code>node</code> mode.</p>
1556<pre><code class="language-console"><span class="hljs-meta">$ </span><span class="language-bash">node index.mjs</span>
1557success!
1558<span class="hljs-meta">$ </span><span class="language-bash">node index <span class="hljs-comment"># Failure!</span></span>
1559Error: Cannot find module
1560<span class="hljs-meta">$ </span><span class="language-bash">node --experimental-specifier-resolution=node index</span>
1561success!</code></pre>
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