module is a plain JavaScript object with an exports property. exports is a plain JavaScript variable that happens to be set to module.exports. At the end of your file, node.js will basically ‘return’ module.exports to the require function. A simplified way to view a JS file in Node could be this: If you set a … Read more
RequireJS cannot load CommonJS modules as-is. However, there is a minimal modification you can make to them to load them. You have to wrap them in a define call like this: If you have a bunch of modules you need to convert, or if you are using a third-party library written in the CommonJS pattern … Read more
Setting module.exports allows the database_module function to be called like a function when required. Simply setting exports wouldn’t allow the function to be exported because node exports the object module.exports references. The following code wouldn’t allow the user to call the function. module.js The following won’t work. The following will work if module.exports is set. console Basically node.js doesn’t export the object that exports currently references, but exports the properties … Read more
RequireJS implements the AMD API (source). CommonJS is a way of defining modules with the help of an exports object, that defines the module contents. Simply put, a CommonJS implementation might work like this: Basically, CommonJS specifies that you need to have a require() function to fetch dependencies, an exports variable to export module contents and a module identifier (which describes the location of the module … Read more
Turned out to be an issue with Webpack just not resolving an import – talk about horrible horrible error messages 🙁