Kevin Griffin presents on building node.js modules. He discusses what modules are and why they are useful. There are three types of modules: those installed via a package manager like npm, files imported with require, and folders imported with require. The presentation demonstrates how to set up a user account on npmjs.org and publish a module to npm.

1. Building node.js Modules
Kevin Griffin
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6. What are modules?

7. Why modules?

8. Package Managers

9. npmjs.org

10. Three types of modules

11. require(‘myModule’)

12. require(‘./myFile’)

13. require(‘./myFile.js’)
or
require(‘./myFile.json’)

14. require(‘./myFolder’)

15. require(‘./myFolder/index.js’)

16. Demo:
Road to Module
Independence

17. Getting Setup to
Publish to npm

18. 1.Create new user account at npmjs.org
2.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

19. npm init
npm publish

22. npm publish

23. And let there be
code…

24. Thanks for attending!
Kevin Griffin
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