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Pure ESM package

The package linked to from here is now pure ESM.

This means you have the following choices:

Use ESM yourself. (preferred)
Use import foo from 'foo' instead of const foo = require('foo') to import the package.
If the package is used in an async context, you could use await import(…) instead of require(…).
Stay on the existing version of the package until you can move to ESM.

I would strongly recommend moving to ESM. ESM can still import CommonJS packages, but CommonJS cannot import ESM packages synchronously.

ESM is natively supported by Node.js 12 and later.

You can read more about my ESM plans.

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