Node.js

You want to execute your JavaScript code? That you can do in Node.js, a JavaScript runtime environment.

Node.js support ECMAScript modules

In the lecture slides it says Node.js doesn't support ECMAScript modules. That is no longer the case, see:

https://nodejs.org/api/esm.html

However, Require JS and ECMAScript modules aren't 100% interchangeable, so it's probably best to be consistent and use only one of them, and I suspect many npm packages out there don't support ECMAScript modules to 100%, so the safest is probably to stick to using Require JS for now.

Lecture material

• node-js.pdf
• node-js.pptx

Recommended reading

• CommonJS Spec Wiki
  • Introduction
  • FAQ
• Requiring modules in Node.js: Everything you need to know
  • Read this if you want to learn more about how modules work in Node.js (not required for this course).