--- title: "#218: The Current State of Implementation and Planning for ESModules" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 218 published_at: "2017-12-14" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/218" --- #218: The Current State of Implementation and Planning for ESModules This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/218) Node WeeklyDecember 14, 2017 #218 The Node.js Technical Steering Committee [The Current State of Implementation and Planning for ESModules](https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/the-current-state-of-implementation-and-planning-for-esmodules-a4ecb2aac07a)The Node.js TSC has met to discuss the implementation and planning for ESModules. Here they share a list of high level intentions for the implementation. 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