RequireJS: JavaScript for the Enterprise
- by Geertjan
I made a small introduction to RequireJS via some of the many cool new RequireJS features in NetBeans IDE. I believe RequireJS, and the modularity and encapsulation and loading solutions that it brings, provides the tools needed for creating large JavaScript applications, i.e., enterprise JavaScript applications.
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(Sorry for the wobbly sound in the above.)
An interesting comment by my colleague John Brock on the above:
One other advantage that RequireJS brings, is called lazy loading of resources. In your first example, everyone one of those .js files is loaded when the first file is loaded in the browser. By using the require() call in your modules, your application will only load the javascript modules when they are actually needed. It makes for faster startup in large applications. You could show this by showing the libraries that are loaded in the Network Monitor window.
So I did as suggested:
Click the screenshot to enlarge it and notice how the Network Monitor is helpful in the context of RequireJS troubleshooting.
