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 the fundamental Node building block, which is related to a single file. Anything within the module is private.