When you start working with WebPack for GameTime, you'll notice that you can't just define a variable in one file and find it in another as easily as you can in Rails.
Read Node.js, Require and Exports and Organize Your Code with RequireJS
- In the context of Node, what is a
module?
It's essentially a file - very similar to a class in Ruby. A file corresponds to a module and everything within that file/module is private. We have to export the module and then require it in the other file where we want to use it.
- The code examples from the second blog post look very different from the first. Why?
The second blog post is using RequireJS and the define call instead of module.exports from CommonJS.