Best practices to develop and maintaing code for complex JQuery/JQueryUI based applications
- by dafi
I'm working on my first very complex JQuery based application.
A single web page can contain hundreds of JQuery related code for example to JQueryUI dialogs.
Now I want to organize code in separated files.
For example I'm moving all initialization dialogs code $("#dialog-xxx").dialog({...}) in separated files and due to reuse I wrap them on single function call like
dialogs.js
function initDialog_1() {
$("#dialog-1").dialog({});
}
function initDialog_2() {
$("#dialog-2").dialog({});
}
This simplifies function code and make caller page clear
$(function() {
// do some init stuff
initDialog_1();
initTooltip_2();
});
Is this the correct pattern?
Are you using more efficient techniques?
I know that splitting code in many js files introduces an ugly band-bandwidth usage so.
Does exist some good practice or tool to 'join' files for production environments?
I imagine some tool that does more work than simply minimize and/or compress JS code.
