[jamal-kumar]

Really? I remember using the commonjs module pattern even before nodejs. It basically just felt like it was a way to write javascript to a standard of quality more than anything in those times. Lots of closure enforcement, and everything wrapped in a top-level function - The module imports were just a side effect. "require" is just a top-level first-class function call. I believe I was using it to build crossplatform mobile applications at one point, and there was absolutely no nodejs involved in that.

All of that said I'm super happy I moved away from mobile/frontend into backend. Way less annoyances.

[alexghr]

My bad, my past experience/bias got the better of me here. I only got exposed to CommonJS as a part of Nodejs but it does look like CommonJS was started independently of Node.

[vmfunction]

yes, RingoJS is also using CommonJS, but yeah CommonJS was mainly for Node. However, now we have standard from import that is part of ES standard. Would rather be using that now that most runtime and browser has implemented it.