DeepJeez strives to handle modularized JavaScript (mostly for the browser) in an unobtrusive way. It's a perfect fit if you're already concatenating everything into a single file, but it can easily be integrated with script loaders if you want to organize modules into their own files.
DeepJeez.define('HelloWorld', function() {
return {
run: function() {
console.log('hello world!');
}
};
});
$dj.require('HelloWorld', function(HelloWorld) {
HelloWorld.run();
});
// defining mod1:
DeepJeez.define('mod1', function() { return ... });
// defining mod2 that depends on mod1:
DeepJeez.define('mod2', [mod1], function(mod1) { return ... });
// requiring dep1 without dependency check:
var mod1 = $dj.require('mod1');
var mod2 = $dj.use('mod1');
// requiring mod1 and mod2:
$dj.require('dep1', 'dep2', function(dep1, dep2) { ... });
$dj.use(['dep1', 'dep2'], function(dep1, dep2) { ... });Dependency managers bring several advantages to your JavaScript:
- You can stop worrying about the order of your code.
- Concatinating becomes a breeze (because the order doesn't matter).
- Loading scripts async becomes a breeze (because the order doesn't matter).
DeepJeez is the simplest possible dependency manager. It only does one thing: Managing the dependencies of your code. You should find it very easy to integrate DeepJeez into an exisiting code base, regardless of how you structure your code on the file system or to the browser.
mocha spec