Is module & file are same or different things?

JavaScript
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wrt chapter https://learn.freecodecamp.org/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/es6/create-an-export-fallback-with-export-default and few others, I am reading about module or file

Are these 2 terminologies same or different ?

Thanks,
Vikram

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Every ES6 module is defined in its own file, so for most purposes, you can think of a module as a .js file that has at least one export statement in it.

In browsers, modules can be defined by <script> tags, so they’re not the same thing as files, but in the node.js environment, or when using module bundlers such as webpack, you can think of modules and files as being equivalent.

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Thanks for detailed clarifications. IMHO this should be covered in basic javascript topics

Regards,
Vikram