import.meta

The import.meta object exposes context-specific metadata to a JavaScript module. It contains information about the module, like the module's URL.

Syntax

import.meta

Description

The syntax consists of the keyword import, a dot, and the identifier meta. Normally the left-hand side of the dot is the object on which property access is performed, but here import is not really an object.

The import.meta object is created by the ECMAScript implementation, with a null prototype. The object is extensible, and its properties are writable, configurable, and enumerable.

Examples

Given a module my-module.js

<script type="module" src="my-module.js"></script>

you can access meta information about the module using the import.meta object.

console.log(import.meta); // { url: "file:///home/user/my-module.js" }

It returns an object with a url property indicating the base URL of the module. This will either be the URL from which the script was obtained, for external scripts, or the document base URL of the containing document, for inline scripts.

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Implementation Progress

The following table provides a daily implementation status for this feature, because this feature has not yet reached cross-browser stability. The data is generated by running the relevant feature tests in Test262, the standard test suite of JavaScript, in the nightly build, or latest release of each browser's JavaScript engine.

See also

• import
• export