Building node.js ModulesKevin Griffin

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Kevin Griffin

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What are modules?

Why modules?

Package Managers

npmjs.org

Three types of modules

require(‘myModule’)

require(‘./myFile’)

require(‘./myFile.js’)or

require(‘./myFile.json’)

require(‘./myFolder’)

require(‘./myFolder/index.js’)

Demo: Road to Module Independence

Getting Setup to Publish to npm

1.Create new user account at npmjs.org2.Go to terminal/command prompt

npm set init.author.name "Your Name"npm set init.author.email "you@example.com"npm set init.author.url "http://yourblog.com“

npm adduser

npm initnpm publish

npm publish

And let there be code…

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