How to deal with cyclic dependencies in Node.js

Question

I\'ve been working with nodejs lately and still getting to grips with the module system so apologies if this is an obvious question. I want code roughly like the following b

Answer 1

You can solve this easily: just export your data before you require anything else in modules where you use module.exports:

classA.js

class ClassA {

    constructor(){
        ClassB.someMethod();
        ClassB.anotherMethod();
    };

    static someMethod () {
        console.log( 'Class A Doing someMethod' );
    };

    static anotherMethod () {
        console.log( 'Class A Doing anotherMethod' );
    };

};

module.exports = ClassA;
var ClassB = require( "./classB.js" );

let classX = new ClassA();

classB.js

class ClassB {

    constructor(){
        ClassA.someMethod();
        ClassA.anotherMethod();
    };

    static someMethod () {
        console.log( 'Class B Doing someMethod' );
    };

    static anotherMethod () {
        console.log( 'Class A Doing anotherMethod' );
    };

};

module.exports = ClassB;
var ClassA = require( "./classA.js" );

let classX = new ClassB();