ES7 exports imports oh my

[dugaquilin]

I'm a relative newcomer to node.js
I have a monolithic piece of code with mySQL, express, DNS2, traceRT, dotenv/config, router, cors, body-parser etc.
I'm trying to break up the code into separate files, I suppose modules is how they are referred.
I believe I'm trying to use ES7.
the whole import / export explanations on the web are hot mess. Seems like an opportunity do improve documentation.
mostly youtuber provide super simple explanations for single npm types.
how about if the examples were to have more complex scenarios
i suppose I'm using v18.17.0.. will upgrade shortly, I thought I was running most current, but there again seems to be not clearly spelled out, I'm probably lost in the weeds.

[dugaquilin]

working it out through iteration
export default function_name;
then don't forget -
export {next function name1};
export {next function name2};
export {next function namen};

then..
// VARIABLES
//------------------------------------
//export { variable_name1 };
etc..

Then what's going on with a SQL connection function ... lots of entries in google talking about how that can't be exported.
what are we to do then? put that function in every file? run from splitting up the code into files and make it all monolithic in one file?

[avivkeller]

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