Accessing An Object Across Multiple Modules

Hi guys. I’m sorry if this question has been answered already. Feel free to lay into me if it has.I working on my first big node app and I just feel like I’m doing this wrong. It’s an electron app for managing a football team, and one render process is designed to run during the game. While the game is being played, I have objects that represent each player, each coach, each referee, the stadium, the plays, the stats, etc. Then I have one object that represents the game itself. Sometimes, I need to access one object from another - for example, when I enter a play, it needs to reference player objects to update their stats, then access the game object to change the down and distance, etc.The way I have done it this: each Class is defined and exported in its own module. The exception is the game.js module - it defines the class, but the exports an instance of this class. Within that instance, there are objects that contain all of the other objects (players, coach’s, teams, etc) that I may need.When I launch the program, the game.js module is required and a new Game object is initialized. Then, within each of the other modules where I may need to access the game instance, I require the game.js module and assign a reference of the game object to a global (to the module) variable named ‘game’. Then, when one object needs to access another - say a Play object needs to access a Player object - i just use game.players[{plrId}] and it works the way I want it to.Is the best way to do this. I mean, it works, so why not? It just doesn’t feel right.Two things that make me question it. One, I use the modular-global ‘game’ variable within each instance of the other objects, which just feels odd. I could assign it to this.game, but that would create a circular structure, which I want to avoid.The second, bigger issue, is that I included the var {game}=require(‘./game’) one at the top of every module before the class definition, but I was finding that that didn’t always work. So I had to add a line in the constructor function that checked if game was undefined and if it was, then I would require the file again.TLDRHow do I make an object that can be accessed by multiple modules in a node project? Essentially a global object, though I don’t want to use that word.

Submitted January 27, 2019 at 03:18AM by rudypepper