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Exposing Internal Utils (Javascript)

  • 23-02-2017 03:44PM
    #1
    off.the.walls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭


    What do people think is a good way to do this, say i'm writing a project and want a single utils file that can contain some auth methods, helper methods etc etc, do you think using a node set up it would be better to do require('../../../../utils'); or perhaps expose it on the window object?


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  • #2
    counterpointaud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 403 ✭✭counterpointaud


    Any reason not to make it a module and declare it as a dependency?

    EDIT: BTW there is no window object in node, or is this supposed to run in the browser?


  • #3
    off.the.walls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,298 ✭✭✭off.the.walls


    counterpointaud wrote: »
    Any reason not to make it a module and declare it as a dependency?

    EDIT: BTW there is no window object in node, or is this supposed to run in the browser?

    Apologies, this is where my confusion lay, I know in terms of libraries such as jQuery they expose their functionality on the window. This is where I was hitting a wall with this!


  • #4
    counterpointaud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 403 ✭✭counterpointaud


    Try and avoid putting things in global scope if you can help it. We have evolved a lot since the JQuery days, there are many options for modularization in Javascript.


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