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Object-Oriented JavaScript

You're reading from   Object-Oriented JavaScript Learn everything you need to know about object-oriented JavaScript (OOJS)

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785880568
Length 550 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Stoyan STEFANOV Stoyan STEFANOV
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Object-Oriented JavaScript FREE CHAPTER 2. Primitive Data Types, Arrays, Loops, and Conditions 3. Functions 4. Objects 5. ES6 Iterators and Generators 6. Prototype 7. Inheritance 8. Classes and Modules 9. Promises and Proxies 10. The Browser Environment 11. Coding and Design Patterns 12. Testing and Debugging 13. Reactive Programming and React A. Reserved Words B. Built-in Functions
C. Built-in Objects D. Regular Expressions
E. Answers to Exercise Questions

Modules

JavaScript modules are not new. In fact, there were have been libraries that support modules for some time now. ES6, however, offers built-in modules. Traditionally, JavaScript's major use was on browsers, where most of the JavaScript code was either embedded or small enough to manage without much trouble. Things have changed. JavaScript projects are now on a massive scale. Without an efficient system of spreading the code into files and directories, managing code becomes a nightmare.

ES6 modules are files. One module per file and one file per module. There is no module keyword. Whatever code you write in the module file is local to the module unless you export it. You may have a bunch of functions in a module, and you want to export only a few of them. You can export module functionality in a couple of ways.

The first way is to use the export keyword. You can export any top-level function, class, var, let, or const.

The following example shows a module inside server.js where...

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