benefits of using classes for scalability vs individual exported functions

hello all, I'm relatively new to nodejs and am in the process of building my first nodejs app using expressjs.​I'm wondering what the benefit (if any) to using classes to define controller's and their methods.​what would the difference be between creating a UserController which is called in the route as so​const userController = new UserController();router.get('/', userController.getAll);​as opposed to have userController be a file with various exported functions?​import userController from './controllers/userController.js';router.get('/', userController.getAll);​both of these should work without a problem, as in the second example userController is only an object which contains various functions.​But in terms of scale-ability and future-proofing code for new ES releases, what is the difference between these two styles or it just that, a style choice with no real difference in how we can scale our apps.

Submitted January 11, 2019 at 02:14PM by Dasnowman1183