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 > > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.