"Complexity must be grown from simple systems that already work."
– Kevin Kelly, “Out of Control”
Node’s straightforward module management system encourages the development of code bases that grow and remain maintainable. The Node developer is blessed with a rich ecosystem of clearly defined packages with consistent interfaces that are easy to combine, delivered via npm. When developing solutions, the Node developer will find many pieces of the functionality they need ready-made, and can rapidly compose those open source modules into larger, but still consistent and predictable, systems. Node's simple and scalable module architecture has let the Node ecosystem grow rapidly.
In this chapter, we will cover the details of how Node understands modules and module paths, how modules are defined, how to use...
