On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Axel Rauschmayer <[email protected]> wrote:
> In Node.js, the difference is:
>
> module.exports = function () { … };
>
> versus
>
> module.exports = {
> foo: …,
> bar: …,
> baz: …
> };
>
> So, conceptually, the former piece of code exports a single value, while
> the latter exports multiple values.
>
>
I would say (in my purely anecdotal experience) that "most" of the
well-written and idiomatic node modules that I have used use the former
technique. In a lot of cases, the exported function is a "basic, 95% of use
cases" functionality, and then the module exposes a richer, more advanced
API by adding attributes to the function object.
Here are a couple examples:
https://github.com/isaacs/minimatch
https://github.com/substack/dnode
https://github.com/mikeal/request
-- Sean Silva
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