# JavaScript modules — Aggregating modules

> There will be times where you'll want to aggregate modules together.

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There will be times where you'll want to aggregate modules together. You might have multiple levels of dependencies, where you want to simplify things, combining several submodules into one parent module. This is possible using export syntax of the following forms in the parent module

For an example, see our module-aggregation directory. In this example (based on our earlier classes example) we've got an extra module called shapes.js, which aggregates all the functionality from circle.js, square.js, and triangle.js together. We've also moved our submodules inside a subdirectory inside the modules directory called shapes. So the module structure in this example is

In each of the submodules, the export is of the same form, e.g.

Next up comes the aggregation part. Inside shapes.js, we include the following lines

These grab the exports from the individual submodules and effectively make them available from the shapes.js module.

&gt; [!NOTE] &gt; The exports referenced in shapes.js basically get redirected through the file and don't really exist there, so you won't be able to write any useful related code inside the same file.

So now in the main.js file, we can get access to all three module classes by replacing

with the following single line

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