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 the fundamental building block of node which maps directly to a file. A module can be a container of exported values or not. - The code examples from the second blog post look very different from the first. Why? The second blog post uses RequireJS and thus has different syntax that pulls in and simplifies much of the work of doing module.exports.
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