ESM: Named Exports and Imports

Named exports and imports

ESM allows us to export functionality from a module through the export keyword.

Note: ESM uses the singular word export as opposed to the plural (exports and module.exports) used by CommonJS.

In an ES module, everything is private by default, and only exported entities are publicly accessible from other modules.

The export keyword can be used in front of the entities that we want to make available to the module users. Let’s see an example: