In Node.js, the difference is:
module.exports = function () { … };
versus
module.exports = {
foo: …,
bar: …,
baz: …
};
So, conceptually, the former piece of code exports a single value, while the
latter exports multiple values.
Axel
On Jul 4, 2013, at 23:47 , Sean Silva <sil...@purdue.edu> wrote:
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>
>
> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 7:43 AM, Axel Rauschmayer <a...@rauschma.de> wrote:
> When importing from a multi-export module, you need to wrap things in braces,
> which enables convenient syntax for single-export modules.
> Why? Have single-export modules in npm been counted? Are there more than
> multi-export modules?
>
> I’m guessing that single-export modules will usually export functions, right?
>
>
> In a sense, doesn't require()-style modules enforce only single-exports? Only
> a single value can be exported from a module, no?
>
> I haven't been following the ES6 modules functionality super-closely, so I
> may be misinformed: My understanding is that the current ES6 proposed way to
> do module exports adds a new language construct for aggregating multiple
> values and passing them to another part of the program (namely, that all
> `export`'ed declarations are aggregated in a new way and made available to
> `import` statements, which use new language constructs to access the values
> aggregated by the module (`import foo from ...`, `module foo from ...`) and
> renaming values (`as`)).
>
>
> -- Sean Silva
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