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| author | Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com> | 2022-04-02 20:29:22 +0200 |
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| committer | Juan José Arboleda <soyjuanarbol@gmail.com> | 2022-04-06 12:25:50 -0500 |
| commit | 94492424ba47c691050861e2f31e73bf1544b08f (patch) | |
| tree | 19317cb2b727f1bc83966457751ac3afeec3c32f | |
| parent | 541a1328b031188c4bc8402878a777787744940e (diff) | |
| download | node-new-94492424ba47c691050861e2f31e73bf1544b08f.tar.gz | |
doc: add introduction sentence for CJS
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/42491
Reviewed-By: Geoffrey Booth <webadmin@geoffreybooth.com>
Reviewed-By: Akhil Marsonya <akhil.marsonya27@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/api/modules.md | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/api/modules.md b/doc/api/modules.md index de17eea503..0264c4ff55 100644 --- a/doc/api/modules.md +++ b/doc/api/modules.md @@ -6,7 +6,11 @@ <!--name=module--> -In the Node.js module system, each file is treated as a separate module. For +CommonJS modules are the original way to package JavaScript code for Node.js. +Node.js also supports the [ECMAScript modules][] standard used by browsers +and other JavaScript runtimes. + +In Node.js, each file is treated as a separate module. For example, consider a file named `foo.js`: ```js |