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 maps directly to a file. A module is private until it is exported using module.exports and imported using require.
- The code examples from the second blog post look very different from the first. Why?
- The second post is about using requireJS. This uses something called define to initialize a module vs defining a prototype class like when using node modules.