Kinda funny how hard it is to explain this.

I thought it was interesting so I gave it a crack as well: 
http://www.noiregrets.com/blog/2013/10/19/e40baf63/NodeJS-module-exports-vs-exports
TL;DR: variables are not the values they point to.

Maybe that helps yougen or maybe I'm beating a dead horse. :)

Cheers!

On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 21:22:29 UTC+11, yougen zhuang wrote:
>
> Before assign value to exports, module.exports === exports, but after 
> assign value, they're not equal.  In my view, they're point to the same 
> reference. 
> BTW, if I modify to module.exports.Rect = Rect, then module.exports === 
> exports
>
> function Rect(w,h) {
>     this.w = w;
>     this.h = h;
> };
>
> Rect.prototype.area = function(){
>     return this.w*this.h;
> };
>
> console.log(module.exports === exports);//true
> module.exports = Rect;
> console.log(module.exports);
> console.log(exports);
> console.log(module.exports === exports);//false
>
>
>

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