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

An other method I've seen people do is exporting at the first line and saving it as a local variable like this:

let self = module.exports = {};

const a = require('./a');

// Exporting the necessary functions
self.func = function() { ... }

I tend to use this method, do you know about any downsides of it?