Node JS: how to get access to ES6 class from another file?

Question

Good day. I have 3 different files: app.js, task.js, index.html.

task.js - model of the task. It contains:

module.exports = class Task {
    constructor(author, header, priority, description, id) {
        //...
    }

    //...
};

app.js contains:

const Task = require("./js/models/Task");

I can create an instance of the task in app.js:

const task = new Task();

But when i try to attach task.js to index.html:

<script src="../js/models/Task.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

and run the server, i get an error:

ReferenceError: module is not defined   
module.exports = class Task

How i can create an instance of the Task?

Answer 1

The CommonJS module syntax is only supported natively by Node. It's not supported natively by the browser. You can use Browserify to bundle up CommonJS modules to a format your browser understands, should you want the syntax to work on the browser.