Question

I’ve got the following code at the top of my CoffeeScript
program to reference a BinaryNode class from a BinaryTree
class.

Since I want to be able to use the BinaryTree class from
a node.js program or from the browser I have the following
if/else statement to reference the BinaryNode.

file: BinaryTree.coffee

isNodeJs = exports?
if isNodeJs
    {BinaryNode} = require('./binary_node')
else
    BinaryNode = window.BinaryNode

class BinaryTree
    (code for BinaryTree goes here)

Somehow this if/else bugs me specially if I will need to
add it on a lot of different classes that make up the
program.

Are there any other better ways to perform this check?

Answer 1

(From my comment above)

The branching can be shortened to:

{BinaryNode} = require?("/.binary_node") or window

(provided you don’t have a global require function somewhere in your browser code, of course)