After splitting my project up into many OO classes I am having to pass a reference to my Model instance (contains Mongoose models and schema) through multiple constructors.
Would it be bad practice to create an instance of the Model class inside the model.js module and then require this model.js module everywhere I need it?
Something like this:
Model = function () { ... }
module.exports = new Model();
This would rely on Node’s module caching to allow the same Model instance to be shared between files, like having a global singleton.
Or should I explicitly pass dependencies through constructors?
No, it’s not a bad practice. In fact, many people do it this way.