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Regex for VS Code and IDE Search/Find CommonJS require calls

Find CommonJS imports for migration to ESM.

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Section: Editor Refactor Recipes

Find CommonJS require calls

regex
regex
\bconst\s+([A-Za-z_$][\w$]*)\s*=\s*require\((['"][^'"]+['"])\)
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Useful when converting Node projects to ESM.

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