Destructuring or Something Different?

Question

This looks like destructuring:

const {getElementById, seedElements} = require(\'./utils\')

but I\'m confused about it. I\'m used to seeing something

Answer 1

You can think

const {getElementById, seedElements} = require('./utils')

as destructuring since when you export, you would write your export like

module.exports = { getElementById, seedElements };

or

export { getElementById, seedElements };

and while importing using require you would basically be importing the entire module and you can destructure the individual modules from it.

const {getElementById, seedElements} = require('./utils')

would be similar to

const Utils = require('./utils');
const { getElementById, seedElements } = Utils;

with the import syntax, you would however import the named exports like

import { getElementById, seedElements } from './utils';

Answer 2

Yes, that is object destructuring.

The require() function in Node.js can be used to import modules, JSON, and local files. For instance (from the docs):

// Importing a local module:
const myLocalModule = require('./path/myLocalModule');

Calling require(moduleId) returns the object module.exports of moduleId ( module.exports contains precisely all properties that are made available by the module).