Exporting Objects with the Exports Object

Question

Say I have one .js file containing a javascript object. I want to be able to access that object and all of its functionality from another .js file in t

Answer 1

In one file:

module.exports.myObj = some object...;

In the other:

Obj = require('myFile.js').myObj;

Everything in a js file on node is local to that file unless you put it in the export object. This actually is very different from JavaScript in a browser--in the browser all files that get imported act together like one big file.

You can kinda think about node files as though you are creating a module object and passing it' into a function surrounding your code.

module = { 'exports' : {} };
(function(module){
    //your js file
    ...
})(module)