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The Concept of Require
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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

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  • In the context of Node, what is a module?
  • The code examples from the second blog post look very different from the first. Why?
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  • A module is a small chunk of code that only knows about what is contained in itself. It must be exported in order for the outside world to have access to it.
  • He is using RequireJS which has a very different syntax than Node's for exporting and importing modules. The use for the standard seems much more straight foreword.

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