ES6 Modules: Import and Export
Explore how to use ES6 import and export statements to organize and share code in React apps. Understand named and default exports, code encapsulation, and how module systems improve maintainability and reuse in your projects.
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In JavaScript ES6, you can import and export functionalities from modules. These can be functions, classes, components, constants, essentially anything you can assign to a variable. Modules can be single files or whole folders with one index file as entry point.
After we bootstrapped our application with create-react-app at the beginning, we already used several import and export statements in the initial files. The import and export statements help you to share code across multiple files. Historically there were already several solutions for this in the JavaScript environment, but it was a mess because there wasn’t a standardized method of ...