Node.js object is not a function - module.exports

Question

I have a module I created for a node.js app. The app also uses socket.io and I want to pass the socket.io object into the auction object when I create it.

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Answer 1

You are exporting an object with 1 property Auction

When you required the module, you imported an object which looks like

{
  Auction: function(){...}// Auction function
}

So either export just the function:

module.exports = Auction;

or reference the property when you require the module:

var  Auction = require('./lib/auction').Auction;

By default, module.exports is an empty object : {}

You can replace exports with a function. This will export just that function.

Or you can export many functions, variables, objects, by assigning them to exports. This is what you have done in your question: assigned the function Auction to the property Auction of exports.