The exports
variable is initially set to that same object (i.e. it’s a shorthand “alias”), so in the module code you would usually write something like this:
let myFunc1 = function() { ... };
let myFunc2 = function() { ... };
exports.myFunc1 = myFunc1; exports.myFunc2 = myFunc2;
to export (or “expose”) the internally scoped functions myFunc1
and myFunc2
.
And in the calling code you would use:
const m = require('./mymodule'); m.myFunc1();
where the last line shows how the result of require
is (usually) just a plain object whose properties may be accessed.