Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

barrel file

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.07 in modern English

Syllables: bar-rel -file
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A JavaScript or TypeScript module which does nothing except import various files and then export them together, for the convenience of other developers who only need to know about and work with that single barrel file.

Example Sentences

"The first thing you want to do to build your framework is export the functions that you want to expose to the developer using it from the src/index.js barrel file. Whatever you export from this file makes the public API of the framework."

Inflected Forms

barrel files (plural)

Questions

What does barrel file mean?: A JavaScript or TypeScript module which does nothing except import various files and then export them together, for the convenience of other developers who only need to know about and work with that single barrel file.

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