Choosing a JavaScript Asynch-Loader
- by Prisoner ZERO
I’ve been looking at various asynchronous resource-loaders and I’m not sure which one to use yet. Where I work we have disparate group-efforts whose class-modules may use different versions of jQuery (etc). As such, nested dependencies may differ, as well. I have no control over this, so this means I need to dynamically load resources which may use alternate versions of the same library.
As such, here are my requirements:
Load JavaScript and CSS resource
files asynchronously.
Manage dependency-order and
nested-dependencies across versions.
Detect if a resource is already
loaded.
Must allow for cross-domain loading
(CDN's)
(optional) Allow us to unload a
resource.
I’ve been looking at:
Curl
RequireJS
JavaScriptMVC
LABjs
I might be able to fake these requirements myself by loading versions into properly-namespaced variables & using an array to track what is already loaded...but (hopefully) someone has already invented this.
So my questions are:
Which ones do you use? And why?
Are there others that my satisfy my
requirements fully?
Which do you find most eloquent and
easiest to work with? And why?
