The ‘import.meta’ meta-property is only allowed when the ‘–module’ option is ‘es2020’, ‘es2022’, ‘esnext’, ‘system’, ‘node16’, or ‘nodenext’

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The ‘import.meta‘ meta-property is a feature in modern JavaScript that allows access to meta-information about the current script module. However, this meta-property is only allowed when the ‘–module’ option is set to one of the following values: ‘es2020’, ‘es2022’, ‘esnext’, ‘system’, ‘node16’, or ‘nodenext’. If the ‘–module’ option is set to any other value or not set at all, using ‘import.meta‘ will result in an error.

When using the ‘–module’ option appropriately, you can access various meta-information using the ‘import.meta‘ object. For example, you can access the ‘url’ property to get the URL of the current module file. Here’s an example: 


    // script.js
    console.log(import.meta.url);

When this script is run within a module supporting ‘import.meta‘ (with correct –module option), it will log the URL of the current module file to the console. This can be useful for loading additional resources or determining the location of the script within your application.

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