The Concept of Require

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When you start working with WebPack for GameTime, you'll notice that you can't just define a variable in one file and find it in another as easily as you can in Rails.

Read Node.js, Require and Exports and Organize Your Code with RequireJS

Fork this gist and answer the following questions:

• In the context of Node, what is a module?
• The code examples from the second blog post look very different from the first. Why?

• A module is a function or variable that can be exported outside of the file. You can then require that module from another file.
• The code examples from the second blog post look very different from the first because they are using RequireJS, which allows you to export modules in a way that's more organized. Then RequireJS takes all the defined modules into one file and minifies it them to optimize performance.