• The official standardized module system for JavaScript, introduced in ES2015 (ES6), which enables importing and exporting functionality between files using import and export statements. ESM provides a static module structure that allows for compile-time optimizations like tree shaking and better tooling support compared to older module systems like CommonJS. Modern browsers natively support ESM, and Node.js has adopted it as the standard for JavaScript modules.

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