How to use function before initializing within module.exports

[red needle]

How do I use emailExists function in the register function

[young isle]

have you tried putting checkEmailExists at the beginning of module.exports?

[red needle]

Yup that didn't work

[simple atlas]

that doesn't work, scoping will break

[red needle]

What should i do ?

[simple atlas]

you would need to have the functions declared outside and then just add them to the exports object as shorthand

well, only checkEmailExists needs to be outside, but it's better to just go all the way

[young isle]

yea +1. I thought about that but I wasn't sure about this

[red needle]

I thought i was shortcutting by declaring inside the exporting

[simple atlas]

for future reference, for methods in an object you'd need this. to access other methods (or properties) of the same object

but that link will be broken when it's destructured in the export

[simple atlas]

so this would be the safer way

[simple atlas]

shortcuts don't always work

[red needle]

is doing it in a class better ? will it solve the issue ? or it is even good to have services as a class

[simple atlas]

probably not strictly better, they'd have their advantages and drawbacks

i don't see any reason to really turn this into a class.

[simple atlas]

actually come to think of it, doing module.exports.register might work but i've never seen that used, i guess it either doesn't work or it's too ugly in comparison

or referencing an object that is then assigned to module.exports

[red needle]

I think declaring then exporting is the choice

[simple atlas]

but this is the more commonly used pattern as far as ive seen, so i still think this is the safer way