How I can change value varible in a file in another file in javascript-CodePudding

I want to change value variable in an index.js in another file, but i can't do that and this is my code example

index.js

   var length = 0;
   client.commands.get('join').excute(length);

anotherfile.js

module.exports = {
    name: 'join',
    description: "",
    excute(length){
       length  ;
    }

length in index.js is 1 = 2, but length in anotherfile.js is not

I imported anotherfile.js to index.js

So how i can change value in length variable

Thank you so much and sorry for my bad english

CodePudding user response：

It's not working because JavaScript doesn't pass variables with primitive data types, such as an integer, through its reference to other functions, but rather creates a whole new variable with a different memory address. The only way you can mutate the original memory location is if you're passing in an array or object, which JavaScript will then pass in a pointer to the original memory location, ie "reference", to the function.

So you'd have to change the datatype of length to an object, and add the value/length of the object as a property. The excute function would then just access that property and increment it like so:

index.js:

const obj = { length: 0 }

client.commands.get('join').excute(obj);

anotherFile.js:

module.exports = {
    name: 'join',
    description: "",
    excute(obj){
       obj.length  ;
    }
}

Keep in mind, you have to pass the whole object, otherwise if you just pass the obj.length, it will simply copy the value and create a whole new variable set to that value.