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
- In the context of Node, what is a
module
? - A module is an object in Node that maps one file directly to another. One node must require another and the required node must export specific information to be exposed in other files.