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?
A module is a reference to code that is contained within a specific file so that it can be exported to be used in other files/namespaces.
- The code examples from the second blog post look very different from the first. Why?
With requireJS you able to define a module using a syntax called directly on the code you want to be able to export. You are then able to call that module elseware to apply it toward code within a seperate namespace.