Building complex applications with JavaScript isn’t a straightforward task because the language has no standard mechanism for creating libraries. CommonJS module specification suggests a way in which libraries (modules) should be written “in order to be interoperable among a class of module systems that can be both client and server side”. Node implements a similar system that makes ...

In my post about Node modules I demonstrate the usage of require() and exports without going into detail. Structuring a Node deployment can be tricky, mostly because there’s more than one way to organize modules in the file system (particularly when working with npm, the de-facto package management tool for Node). Knowing how require() and exports work is important, ...