doc: clarify required flag for extensionless esm

Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/30655

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/30657
Reviewed-By: Yorkie Liu <yorkiefixer@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Myles Borins <myles.borins@gmail.com>
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Lucas Azzola
2019-11-26 22:30:11 +11:00
committed by Myles Borins
parent 8b5b61a9a1
commit 3e5967bacb

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@@ -84,7 +84,8 @@ If the nearest parent `package.json` lacks a `"type"` field, or contains
`"type": "commonjs"`, extensionless and `.js` files are treated as CommonJS.
If the volume root is reached and no `package.json` is found,
Node.js defers to the default, a `package.json` with no `"type"`
field.
field. "Extensionless" refers to file paths which do not contain
an extension as opposed to optionally dropping a file extension in a specifier.
`import` statements of `.js` and extensionless files are treated as ES modules
if the nearest parent `package.json` contains `"type": "module"`.