.esmrc.json

Configuration files for the esm module/package in Node.js

.esmrc.esmrc.json

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Reference

Fields

Generated directly from the schema, following local $refs, to two levels of nesting.

Field	Type	Description
`cjs`	`oneOf`	A boolean or object for toggling CJS features in ESM default: `true`
`mainFields`	`array<string>`	An array of fields checked when importing a package default: `["main"]`
`mode`	`string`	A string describing the mode in which to detect ESM module files default: `"auto"`
`await`	`boolean`	A boolean for top-level await in modules without ESM exports. (Node 10+) default: `false`
`force`	`boolean`	A boolean to apply these options to all module loads default: `false`
`wasm`	`boolean`	A boolean for WebAssembly module support. (Node 8+) default: `false`
`cache`	`boolean`	[dev] A boolean for toggling cache creation or a cache directory path default: `true`
`sourceMap`	`boolean`	[dev] A boolean for including inline source maps default: `false`

Audit

What we found in this schema

Declared draft: draft-07
Validates cleanly against its own meta-schema.
17 properties, 100% carrying a description, max nesting depth 7.

Standards

Specification sections for the keywords in this schema

Keyword	Document	Section
`$comment`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§8.3 — Comments With "$comment"
`$id`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§8.2.1 — The "$id" Keyword
`$schema`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§8.1.1 — "$schema"
`additionalProperties`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§10.3.2.3 — "additionalProperties"
`const`	JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12	§6.1.3 — "const"
`default`	JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12	§9.2 — "default"
`description`	JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12	§9.1 — "title" and "description"
`items`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§10.3.1.2 — "items"
`oneOf`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§10.2.1.3 — "oneOf"
`properties`	JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12	§10.3.2.1 — "properties"
`type`	JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12	§6.1.1 — "type"
`uniqueItems`	JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12	§6.4.3 — "uniqueItems"

Documents

JSON Schema Core, draft 2020-12 — JSON Schema: A Media Type for Describing JSON Documents, A. Wright, H. Andrews, B. Hutton, G. Dennis, Eds., 2022. draft-bhutton-json-schema-01. An expired Internet-Draft with no formal standing in the IETF standards process; it is nonetheless the specification of record for JSON Schema 2020-12, published by json-schema.org.
JSON Schema Validation, draft 2020-12 — JSON Schema Validation: A Vocabulary for Structural Validation of JSON, A. Wright, H. Andrews, B. Hutton, Eds., 2022.
RFC 8259 (STD 90) — The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format, T. Bray, Ed., 2017. The format a schema describes.
RFC 6901 — JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Pointer. Defines the pointer syntax used by $ref fragments and the ~0 / ~1 escapes.

Source

Attribution

This schema comes from SchemaStore, distributed under the Apache License 2.0. Copyright 2015–present Mads Kristensen and contributors. View the original file. The field table and audit on this page are generated by JSONTools.tools; the schema itself is unmodified.

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