including js files with html and node.js

Question

I am performing messaging via websockets between a HTML5 client and server running on node.js. Naturally I chose JSON as the message format and as such created common javascript

Answer 1

Have you researched how Node modules work? If you're developing using this pattern, it's fairly simple to use require('./common/js/comms') on the server while still including it on your client as well.

This article should point you in the right direction: https://caolan.org/posts/writing_for_node_and_the_browser.html

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The following is the code that Tyler linked to in his comments below.

The example (example.js):

if(typeof exports == "undefined"){
    exports = this;
}

Example = function() {
    this.init();
};

Example.prototype = {
    init: function() {
         console.log('hello world');
    }
};

exports.Example = new Example();

The node.js usage of example.js (app.js):

example = require('./example');

The html usage of example.js (index.html):

The change by the OP was to assign exports.Example to Example instead of to an new instance. Thus the node.js logic can use the following:

var Example = require('./example.js').Example;
var foo = new Example();

Thus the original question is solved.