Access private function in Node Module

Question

I have a function exposed through export in a node module I'm building. I'd like to be able to have that function call an internal (private) function within the same module.

So far I have something like:

someModule.js

var publicFunc = function(a, b) {
  var obj = {result: 'of some processing'};
  return privateFunc(obj);
}

var privateFunc = function(obj) {
  /* proccessing */
  return result;
}

exports.publicFunc = publicFunc;

When publicFunc calls privateFunc I get:

Reference error: privateFunc is not defined;

Answer 1

Change your declarations to function name(... instead of var name = function(...

function publicFunc(a, b) {
  var obj = {result: 'of some processing'};
  return privateFunc(obj);
}

function privateFunc (obj) {
  /* proccessing */
  return result;
}

exports.publicFunc = publicFunc;