# How to use export & import in p5.js

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**Created:** [August 14, 2021, 9:14am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-use-export-import-in-p5-js/31724 "2021-08-14T09:14:06Z")
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> [@micuat](#):
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> Also `setup` / `draw` has to be defined as a member of `window` to be picked up by p5.js.

That’s right! A JS module got 2 global contexts: A private 1 and a shared 1.

Explicitly appending to _window_ or _globalThis_ assures those properties can be accessed by both vanilla & module scripts which are sharing the same global context.

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