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What is commonjs2 ?

See original GitHub issue

Sorry if that’s obvious but it’s been eating me for multiple days and even greping commonjs2 through this repository I couldn’t find any obvious information. My google-fu on commonjs2 led me back to https://github.com/webpack/webpack/issues/864 … which was not helpful.

Anyone could explicitely inform me what is commonjs2, the differences with commonjs, and what is the relation with webpack ?

Thanks …

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Created 8 years ago
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Comments:9 (2 by maintainers)

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sokracommented, May 26, 2015

CommonJs spec defines only exports. But module.exports is used by node.js and many other CommonJs implementations.

commonjs mean pure CommonJs commonjs2 also includes the module.exports stuff.

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vamsiampolucommented, Jul 31, 2017

Are there other commonjs implementations that do not use module.exports which need to be supported by webpack? Now that I understand what the two options commonjs and commonjs2 are, I would like to understand if there is a practical use case for commonjs.

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