Is this a good structure for my jQuery scripts?

Question

I want to keep my scripts organized in one .js file for all my site (I have a mess right now), something like namespaces and classes in C#...

(function ($) {

    //private variables
    $.divref = $("#divReference");

    //Namespaces
    window.MySite = {};
    window.MySite.Home = {};
    window.MySite.Contact = {};

    //Public function / method
    window.MySite.Home.Init = function(params){
        alert("Init");

        MySite.Home.PrivateFunction();

        $.divref.click(function(){
            alert("click");
        });
    };

    //private function / method
    MySite.Home.PrivateFunction = function(){
        alert("Private");
    };

})(jQuery); 

Is this an idiomatic layout in jQuery and JScript?

Answer 1

I'll go ahead and post my comment as an answer, though I'm not 100% it addresses your questions about c# namespaces and their parallels in JavaScript (I'm no c# programmer). You're not actually creating private variables because you're attaching them to the $ Object that will exist after this function finishes. If you want private variables you need to use a closure. Those look something like this:

var myObject = function () {
  var innerVariable = 'some private value';

  return {
    getter: function () {
      return innerVariable;
    }
  }
}()

If you attempt to access myObject.innerVariable it will return undefined but if you call myObject.getter() it will return the value correctly. This concept is one you will want to read up on in JavaScript, and for programming in general. Hope that helps.