Call a “local” function within module.exports from another function in module.exports?

Question

How do you call a function from within another function in a module.exports declaration?

app.js

var bla = require(\'./bla.js\');
console.log(bl         


        

Answer 1

You can also do this to make it more concise and readable. This is what I've seen done in several of the well written open sourced modules:

var self = module.exports = {

  foo: function (req, res, next) {
    return ('foo');
  },

  bar: function(req, res, next) {
    self.foo();
  }

}