- **CommonJS `require`:** Literal `require()` calls of compiled modules, supported builtins, and JSON documents compile. Reading a top-level `const` or `let` require binding before its `require` runs throws the same `ReferenceError` as Node.js. A `var` binding that code above its `require` can reach is unsupported, and so is a read that compiles to no checkable expression, such as exporting the binding before the `require`. JSON documents are parsed at build time, and every `require()` of a document returns the same object. Destructuring the exports of a module supports plain and renamed properties, plus nested patterns for builtin sub-modules such as `util.types`. Any pattern works on a JSON document. Defaults, rest elements, and nested patterns over other modules are unsupported. A require cycle compiles when each of its modules assigns all of its exports before its first `require` and uses the other modules of the cycle only inside functions that its top-level code can't call. Other require cycles are rejected with `SC1016`. A top-level `return` ends the module's evaluation. It is unsupported when the module assigns exports after it, or when a function that exists before it runs reads a binding declared after it, such as a callback created above the `return` or a function declaration.