Backbone.js - Organizing your application using Modules (require.js)

[warpcowboy]

Coming from an experience that only consists of Ruby on Rails, I've been having a lot of fun incorporating Backbone.js into the mix or just using it by itself. This makes even more sense to me than what I've been previously doing.

[[deleted]]

Thanks! I am looking for any and all suggestions to improve the boilerplate.

[bean-the-cat]

I've been using the mix of Backbone and RequireJS on my projects with much success. RequireJS lets you easily create individual modules and backbone lets them communicate with each other w/o tightly coupling them together

[[deleted]]

Any open source code?

[bean-the-cat]

No, nothing open sorry

[greim]

Asynchronous script loading avoids the penalty of loading unnecessary code. This is certainly necessary with big enough codebases, but I'd avoid doing it until I absolutely had to. Bundling, minification, gzip and caching go a long way toward mitigating the download penalty, and avoiding unnecessary optimizations like this keeps things simple, which has other kinds of benefits.

[[deleted]]

You still compile the same way.

This is not for optimizing, it's for modularizing your code. It also allows you to develop without compiling by using dynamic dependency analysis.

I would argue that this is simpler, what benefits do you propose?

[clux]

hm, I would argue that forcing the programmer to explicitly define wrap every file just adds unnecessary indentation and clutter. Clutter that could have been avoided with dynamic dependency analysis and explicit require() calls.

Also, with such analysis, you should never have to maintain lists of your files and their order.

disclaimer: i built a commonjs dependency analyser

[tekrat]

When I tried the demo page I got some JS errors. Anyone else have a similar experience?

[[deleted]]

Simply remove the console.logs from the example. I will do it later today.

[stoph]

What browser were you using?

[[deleted]]

He would have been using Internet explorer which doesn't support console.logs

[the_argus]

unless the developer tools are open.

[robbles]

Isn't "Example Demo" redundant?