Learning Node.js Development

Exporting files from note.js to use in app.js

For now though, the focus will be to export something from notes.js which we can use in app.js. Inside notes.js (actually, inside all of our Node files), we have access to a variable called module. I'll use console.log to print module to the screen so that we can explore it over in Terminal, as shown here:

console.log('Starting notes.js');console.log(module);

Let's rerun the file to explore it. As shown in the following screenshot, we get a pretty big object, that is, different properties related to the notes.js file:

Now, to tell the truth, we'll not be using most of these properties. We have ...