Conventions for modern, secure, tooling-agnostic Javascript
.js for Javascript!Write your code for modern Javascript and Ecmascript Standard Modules (ESM)!
There is no need to migrate to the .mjs suffix for ESM, since we consider CommonJS to be the nonstandard Javascript (using require() and module and exports instead of import and export).
Use the .cjs suffix when you need to write (or transpile) CommonJS format.
We don’t want to write Typescript, as it requires transpilation. Instead, we use JSDoc annotations that are validated by Typescript, but don’t make the actual code nonstandard. This has the added benefit of Intellisense, which helps with discoverability of your code.
To have the Typescript language server (in your IDE) validate a .js file’s JSDocs, add:
// @ts-check
near the top of the file. See the example/README.md to learn more.
Write ESM and modern Javascript! Use tooling to generate artifacts for other environments.