3 Defining modules and their properties
This chapter covers
- What modules are, and how module declarations define them
- Discerning different types of modules
- Module readability and accessibility
- Understanding the module path
- Building module graphs with module resolution
We’ve talked a lot about modules already. They’re the core building blocks not only of modular applications, but also of a true comprehension of the module system. As such, it’s important to build a deeper understanding of what they are and how their properties shape a program’s behavior.
Of the three essential steps of defining, building, and running modules, this chapter explores the first (for the other two, see chapters 4 and 5). This chapter explains in detail what a module ...
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