doc: add introduction sentence for CJS

PR-URL: #42491 Reviewed-By: Geoffrey Booth <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Akhil Marsonya <[email protected]>
nodejs · Jul 11, 2022 · 5688f8c · 5688f8c
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 <!--name=module-->
 
-In the Node.js module system, each file is treated as a separate module. For
+CommonJS modules are the original way to package JavaScript code for Node.js.
+Node.js also supports the [ECMAScript modules][] standard used by browsers
+and other JavaScript runtimes.
+
+In Node.js, each file is treated as a separate module. For
 example, consider a file named `foo.js`:
 
 ```js