Well, that's from Node 0.4.x, it's been a long time (6 minor versions and 2
years), things have changed quite a bit. Thanks for bringing into notice. I
should update that post.


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:23 PM, mks <vladimiro.paglia...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Not that nice. Mostly wrong.
> What happens is something like:
>
> var module = { exports: {}} void function ( module, exports ){
> module.exports.name = 18 // assignment of the "name" property of the
> "exports" object.
> exports.answer = 42 // assignment of the "answer" property of the
> "exports" local variable, that reference the "exports" property of the
> "module" object.
> module.exports = 23 // reassignment of the "export" property of the
> "module" object.
> exports = 100 // just a local variable. }( module, module.exports )
>
> The rest is just basic understanding of how javascript handles references.
>
> On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 12:31:10 PM UTC+2, node-code wrote:
>
>> Nice write-up here... http://www.**hacksparrow.com/node-js-**
>> exports-vs-module-exports.html<http://www.hacksparrow.com/node-js-exports-vs-module-exports.html>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 3:52 PM, yougen zhuang <blu...@gmail.com> 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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