Data.lua question

[ElectroMagnetic]

I'm just starting modding(literally just read the tutorials) and have a question about the data.lua file.
When I look at GitHub code for mods and even Factorio's code documentation itself, it just says

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require "prototypes.thing.thing"

with a bunch of different Prototype types while the actual prototypes are defined in a separate folder. But in the modding tutorial, it says to make the prototypes in data.lua.
Maybe it's just how you're supposed to document mods on GitHub? I don't really know so thanks for any help!

[jodokus31]

https://www.lua.org/pil/8.1.html

You can split prototypes to separate files, otherwise data.lua could get quite big and hard to maintain.

[ElectroMagnetic]

Ok thanks!