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I need to re-structure an existing AMD module to make it both usable by pages with/without RequireJS presented. How should I do it, and is there any example code? Preferably, it would be a way without polluting the global namespace, though not a strict requirement.
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Asynchronous module definition (AMD) is a specification for the programming language JavaScript. It defines an application programming interface (API) that defines code modules and their dependencies, and loads them asynchronously if desired.
RequireJS is probably the most popular implementation of AMD. One major difference from CommonJS is that AMD specifies that modules are loaded asynchronously - that means modules are loaded in parallel, as opposed to blocking the execution by waiting for a load to finish.
RequireJS is a basic loader, which is used to loads the JavaScript files, it is a framework to manage dependencies between JavaScript files, and in modular programming, all the functionality divides in different modules, so RequireJs is a best tool to assemble different JavaScript files from different modules by which ...
RequireJS syntax allows to load modules faster without worrying about keeping track of the order of dependencies. You can load multiple versions of the same module in the same page.
This is not a bad idea at all, quite often JS libs are required to support a AMD/non AMD environment. Here is one variation of the solution:
!function (name, definition) {
if (typeof module != 'undefined') module.exports = definition()
else if (typeof define == 'function' && define.amd) define(name, definition)
else this[name] = definition()
}('reqwest', function () {
// Module here
});
The only downside is you can't request other dependencies, so this would only be useful in stand alone libraries, like the ones below
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