AMD-ifying jQuery Source
What is AMD?
... WHAT IS AMD?
Asynchronous Module Definition
Workable javascript module system
Modules are super-cool
King of Modules
Why AMD?
- Browser specialty
- jQuery mobile (UI coming up)
- r.js
Changing the World
Old jQuery
Bunny-face carrot!
Problems
- Not usable individually without building
- Tracked dependencies manually
- Limited builds
New jQuery
- No more interdependency
- Built file size not affected
- Main modules still there, with AMD wrappers
- The core of core is the only core
- Clears the path for even further fragmentation
Real world modules
Examples time
Build?? I am excite!
AMD + Building
- Reduce network requests
- Reduce size
- Flexible, pliable builds
Future Roadmap
- jQuery Mobile and UI to list core dependencies
- Further fragmentation
- Grunt task for building jQuery