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supports-esm
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Detect at runtime if Node.js supports ECMAScript modules.
$ npm install supports-esm
This library exports true
if the current Node.js version is considered to have
reasonable support for ESM features, false
otherwise.
Version 1.x returns true
if the following features are all present:
package.json
, including conditional exportsOne notable use case is to conditionally execute an ESM or CommonJS entrypoint from a "bin" script, such as a command-line interface authored in ESM and transpiled to CommonJS for backwards compatibility:
'use strict';
const supportsESM = require('supports-esm');
if (supportsESM) {
import('../src/cli.js').catch((error) => {
console.error(error);
process.exit(1);
});
} else {
require('../build-cjs/cli.js');
}
This snippet works in all Node.js versions >= 10.0.0.
FAQs
Detect at runtime if Node.js supports ECMAScript modules
We found that supports-esm demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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