Proper way to separate nowjs code from app.(coffee/js)

Question

Is there a proper way to separate out my nowjs code from the app file?

everyone = require("now").initialize app, { socketio: { transports: ['xhr-polling', 'jsonp-polling'] } }

everyone.now.distribute_event = (event, day) ->
  everyone.now.receive_event @now.name, event, day

I'm guessing you would define the functions elsewhere like routes? Something like below?

nowtes = require('./nowtes')

everyone = require("now").initialize app, { socketio: { transports: ['xhr-polling', 'jsonp-polling'] } }

everyone.now.distribute_event = nowtes.distribute_event

Answer 1

I was able to get something working by doing this:

global.now = require("now")
global.everyone = now.initialize app,
  socketio:
    transports: [ 'xhr-polling', 'jsonp-polling' ]

nowtes = require "./nowtes"

everyone.now.distribute_event = nowtes.distribute_event

In nowtes/index.coffee

exports.distribute_event = (activity, day) ->
  everyone.now.receive_event @now.name, activity, day

Looks much cleaner to me.