Depending on jQuery

jQueryTO, March 2013

Alex Sexton / @SlexAxton

A Story

You can tell that this is fake because he hasn't browsed reddit yet.

Let's optimize for the way we think

We're not good at holding all of our depdendencies in our brains. And we're not good at remembering when something needs to be removed.

You can have *one*.

So not only are you using 3rd party code as modules. You're writing your app in that same modular fashion.

We switched to using a require statement instead of define. This usually happens in your _base_ file and no where else. This means we don't need to return anything at the very end.

This is overly simplified, we can actually precompile our templates this way and avoid the *terrible* world of in DOM templates.

Along with other libraries like Backbone that are _actually_ for structuring your app.

Fin.

Questions?

alexsexton.com/talks/depending-on-jquery