> > However, I am confused by the "module.exports = ..." part of your > boilerplate. The main CommonJS wiki seems down at the moment, but looking > at <http://wiki.commonjs.org.mirrors.page.ca/articles/m/o/d/Modules.html> > on the mirror site, I could not find any support for this idiom. The > closest I could find was < > http://wiki.commonjs.org.mirrors.page.ca/articles/m/o/d/Modules_SetExports_9215.html>, > which suggests it should read "module.setExports(...);" instead. Where does > "module.exports = ..." come from? >
module.exports = ... is a mechanism in node.js to overwrite the exports object entirely. (useful when you want to export, say a function rather then an object) It seems to be similar to module.setExports and is there purely to support the implementation of the module system in node.js
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