To place an emphasis on what everyone else has been saying var foo in top level does not create a global variable. If you want a global variable then write global.foo. but we all know globals are evil.
If you are someone who uses globals like that in a node.js project I was on I would refactor them away for as there are just so few use cases for this (There are a few exceptions but this isn't one).
// Declare application
var app = require('express').createServer();
// Declare usefull stuff for DB purposes
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var Schema = mongoose.Schema;
var ObjectId = Schema.ObjectId;
require('./models/car.js').make(Schema, mongoose);
in car.js
function make(Schema, mongoose) {
// Define Car model
CarSchema = new Schema({
brand : String,
type : String
});
mongoose.model('Car', CarSchema);
}
module.exports.make = make;