Tagged: Modules
Object JavaScript – ECMAScript 6 Code Preview
ECMAScript 6 specification and implementation is underway and promises to bring many of the features that you’ve learned about in the posts on Object JavaScript.
This post gives you an idea of what the code looks like in ECMAScript 6. This post doesn’t cover ever feature. But you will learn about how ECMAScript 6 relates to:
- Scope
- Arrow Functions and Lexical this
- Default Function Parameters
- Classes
- Inheritance
- Modules
- for-of
- Arrow functions
- Promises
I won’t come close to covering all the features. But you can get an idea of how ECMAScript 6 works to support the idea of Object JavaScript. Look to the references and to the specification for information about: Parameter handling, multiple return values, collections, destructuring, rest parameters & spread operator, iterators, array comprehension, and more.
Special thanks to Axel Rauschmayer for many of the snippets.
Object JavaScript – Getting Started with Modules Using RequireJS
RequireJS is a JavaScript file and module loader. It is optimized for in-browser use, but it can be used in other JavaScript environments, like Rhino and NodeJS. Using a modular script loader like RequireJS will improve the speed and quality of your code.
When a project reaches a certain size, managing the script modules for a project starts to get tricky. You need to be sure to sequence the scripts in the right order, and you need to start seriously thinking about combining scripts together into a bundle for deployment, so that only one or a very small number of requests are made to load the scripts.
You may also want to load code on the fly, after page load.
RequireJS can help you manage the script modules, load them in the right order, and make it easy to combine the scripts later via the RequireJS optimizer without needing to change your markup. It also gives you an easy way to load scripts after the page has loaded, allowing you to spread out the download size over time.
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