Issue with BrowserSync instances

[lifeBalance]

Since I have my Gulp tasks split in separate files, I've created an instance of BrowserSync in the serve.js task, and then try to get the instance with var bs = require("browser-sync").get('browSync); in another file.
While this works fine for the styles task, I get the following error when trying to do the same in the scripts task:

throw new Error("An instance with the name `%s` was not found.".replace("%s", name));
    ^

My code

[lifeBalance]

Ok, I found out what the problem was, I'll leave it here for posterity. As it happens, I created the BrowserSync instance in the serve.js file, which contains the serve task:

var browserSync = require('browser-sync').create('browSync');

So this file must be required in the scripts.js file doing:

var serve       = require('./serve'); // The file where I created the 'browSync' instance
var browserSync = require('browser-sync').get('browSync');

What is a bit confusing, is that I didn't have to require the 'browSync' instance in the styles.js file, but it still works, and not sure why.

[shakyShane]

it's all about the order in which those files are interpreted by node. essentially the first file read should be the one you call .create() in