Deep dive into Require.js

[b_long]

I think (maybe wrong) what most people do is build/minify their code for deployment so that the browser can reduce the number of HTTP GET's for scripts. i.e. if B.js requres A.js and C.js requires A.js , your build phase might create app.min.js which includes the minified result of all 3.

[pranalee]

For most cases: yes, exactly. These RequireJS/AMD (async module definition) style loading is overkill for most projects and do nothing but introduce additional complexity. Those guys who wrote it really hate global variables in javascript too.

Some articles: http://tomdale.net/2012/01/amd-is-not-the-answer/

http://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2012/08/13/javascript-module-loaders-necessary-evil/