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On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:05 AM, netpoetica <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been working with Node for a few months now, mainly out of books and > tutorials, just sort of trying to get a handle on using JavaScript on the > backend. It all seems well and good, but I'm still unclear about how to > properly organize code in your Node program. For example, if I'm porting a > completely client-side app over to Node, and I have functions that I > normally use on the client side to, let say, build out an HTML widget, but > I want to be able to access them from one of my route files as well so that > I can build the widget behind the scenes and serve it up from the backend - > where do you put this kind of code? > > Essentially, where do you put/how do you use model/controller > functions/value objects/files across multiple views in an organized, > modular manner? > > We all know we don't want to pollute the global namespace, but, there are > some functions that will need to be used site-wide on both the client and > server side. It seems silly to me to use a require for the same function to > be stored in memory again if two separate routes will need that function in > order to build their instance. > > Most of the tutorials I've seen and even some Github projects have these > bloated app.js files where it seems they are storing the values globally - > but even then there are instances where it's unclear whether or not > specific routes (files starting with module.export = ) will have access to > these values (let's say, Model-level functions and value objects). > > I hope this isn't completely silly. I've done a pretty good deal of > research into this, and haven't quite found anything that really speaks to > this. I'm completely open to being redirected to articles you may have > found and/or Github repos where simply studying the structure would make > this clearer. If it's any help, I'm mostly working with Express and using a > routing structure similar to typical Express apps, and just curious how to > share functions and objects across multiple views, and where to put them > for proper loading. > > Thanks much, and happy thanksgiving! > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
