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Anas Nabil
Anas Nabil

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Importing and Exporting Modules in JavaScript

  • Name Export
export const name = 'value'
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  • Name Import
import { name } from '...'
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  • Default Export
export default 'value'
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  • Default Import
import anyName from '...'
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  • Rename Export
export { name as newName }
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  • Name Import
import { newName } from '...'
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  • List Export and Renaming
export {
    name1,
    name2 as newName2
}
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  • List Import and Renaming
import {
    name1 as newName1,
    newName2
} from '...'
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Lou Cyx

Just a heads up that you can add highlighting to the code blocks if you'd like. Just change:

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... to specify the language:

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More details in our editor guide!

About the actual post, one scenario that I think is missing is when you re-export one thing from another file:

export { something } from "somewhere";
// or
export { something as somethingElse } from "somewhere";
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Cheers!