object oriented question

[matthewchung74]

I'm wondering in the scaffolding code, looking at articles for example, the controller might have something like exports.create = function(req, res) { which is good, but feels kind of functional opposed to object oriented, ie module.exports = function() { var ctrl = new Articles(); return ctrl; }

I'm curious to hear the reason the scaffolds do it this way opposed to new'ing up an object that that has public/privileged methods exposed?

[rschwabco]

Check out this talk and see what Douglas Crockford thinks about using "new" and about OOP generally. Specifically, this pattern is consistent with the common usage of Express.js - and as such, we choose to prefer it over alternative styles.

[matthewchung74]

That video totally changed how I look at JS. Thanks.