Facade module design pattern

[Aubin Lorieux]

I everyone,

I'm making a module to wrap up the module soap. I want to expose a specific but simple API.

var myModule = require('myModule');
var webservice = myModule({someOptions: ''});

webservice.run(data, function(err, res){
  //Do something
});

It is a good practice to return an instance of protoype by module.exports.

function MyModule(options) {
  this.options = options || options;
};

MyModule.prototype.myFunc = function() {

};

module.exports = exports = function(options) {
  return new MyModule(options);
}

Thanks in advance

[Aria Stewart]

This makes the fact that you have a class behind the scenes a private detail to some degree, which I find nice. I'm a fan of new-less APIs. It makes it somewhat hard to subclass, and usually that's a good thing. Inheritance stinks as an extension mechanism.