In Node.js, how do I “include” functions from my other files?

Question

Let\'s say I have a file called app.js. Pretty simple:

var express = require(\'express\');
var app = express.createServer();
app.set(\'views\', __dirname + \         


        

Answer 1

If you'd like to take advantage of multiple CPUs & Microservice architecture, to speed things up...Use RPCs over forked processes.

Sounds complex, but it's simple if you use octopus.

Here's an example:

on tools.js add :

const octopus = require('octopus');
var rpc = new octopus('tools:tool1');

rpc.over(process, 'processRemote');

var sum = rpc.command('sum'); // This is the example tool.js function to make available in app.js

sum.provide(function (data) { // This is the function body
    return data.a + data.b;
});

on app.js, add :

const { fork } = require('child_process');
const octopus = require('octopus');
const toolprocess = fork('tools.js');

var rpc = new octopus('parent:parent1');
rpc.over(toolprocess, 'processRemote');

var sum = rpc.command('sum');

// Calling the tool.js sum function from app.js
sum.call('tools:*', {
    a:2, 
    b:3
})
.then((res)=>console.log('response : ',rpc.parseResponses(res)[0].response));

disclosure - I am the author of octopus, and built if for a similar usecase of mine, since i couldn't find any lightweight libraries.