How to refer to exports function from inside Node.Js app?

Question

Supposed I have the following exports function inside validate.js of my Node.Js app:

exports.stopwordsClean = function () {
    return function(req, res, next){
        console.log("validating...");
    }
};

I understand that to refer to this function from another file I would first require this file and then use validate.stopwordsClean()

But how do I refer to it from inside the same file? this.stopwordsClean() doesn't work...

Answer 1

exports is an object which is available in module . When you write exports.stopwordsClean = function () {.. you are setting a property stopwordsClean of exports object. Therefore you can always use

exports.stopwordsClean()

to use the function inside the same module.