On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Mark Volkmann
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I know there are many opinions on the best way to organize functions into
> Node modules.
> I'd like to throw out an example and see what people think.
> Suppose you are writing a module that performs basic statistics.
> There are three functions that compute the mean, median and mode of values
> in an array.
> Here are some ways I think people might organize these.
>
> 1) Create a separate module for each function.
> 2) Create one module that only exports the mean function, viewing it as the
> most commonly used of the three.
>     Add the median and mode functions as properties of the mean function so
> they can be accessed from it.
> 3) Create one module that exports all three functions.
>
> Which of these would you prefer? Is there another option I haven't
> described?

For a module like this, I would go for option 3.  They are too tiny to
be their own module each.  Option 2 puts too much focus on the mean
function.  It's not fundamentally different from the others.  Being
simply used more often doesn't make it a different kind of thing.

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