Question

Is there anything equivarent to Python’s ‘from foobar import *’ in Node.js?

Now I wrote the following code:

var foobar = require('foobar'),
    func1  = foobar.func1,
    gvar2  = foobar.gvar2,
    const3 = foobar.const3;

I think this is ugly, because a lot of names appeared twice.

Python provides smart solution which removes duplications:

from foobar import func1, gvar2, const3

Does Node.js provide similar way?

Answer 1

No, it does not; at least, I am not aware of any way to do this easily.

Node uses the CommonJS module system, which requires a function, require, that returns an exported API for a module.