Google has launched Chrome 61 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Additions in this release include JavaScript modules and WebUSB support, among other developer features. You can update to the latest ...

Microsoft shipped the beta release of TypeScript 4.7, which tackles a "very difficult feature," ECMAScript Module Support in Node.js. The difficulty arises from two different JavaScript module systems ...

A protest via a developer against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has turned into a supply chain attack in a popular JavaScript developer module. Detailed Wednesday by researchers at Snyk Ltd., the ...

There seems to be some confusion when it comes to JavaScript modules. Some developers are unsure of how they work and why are various ways that they can be used. To clear up some of these ...

A row that led a developer to delete a 17-line JavaScript module has stopped countless applications working.

There are ways though that modules provide to export variables so they can be accessed from outside the module, and that I covered already in a previous article: An Intro To JavaScript Modules.

ECMAScript modules, aka ES modules or ESM, is the official JavaScript module syntax. As such, it is not technically a tool, but it has broad implications for JS development and tools.

Currently, modules must be recompiled to work with new versions of Node.js and the JavaScript engine, which traditionally has been Google’s V8 engine.

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