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Mastering Backbone.js

You're reading from   Mastering Backbone.js Design and build scalable web applications using Backbone.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783288496
Length 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abiee Echamea Abiee Echamea
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Preface 1. Architecture of a Backbone application 2. Managing Views FREE CHAPTER 3. Model Bindings 4. Modular Code 5. Dealing with Files 6. Store data in the Browser 7. Build Like a Pro 8. Testing Backbone Applications 9. Deploying to Production 10. Authentication Index

Chapter 4. Modular Code

As your project's code grows, the number of scripts in the project will be more and more, incrementing script-loading complexity. The classic way to load JavaScript files is to write a<script> tags for every script you have, but you have to do it in the right order; if you don't, your code could stop working. That's not an efficient way for medium-size projects.

What happens if you forget the order of loading? What if you make a refactorization on the code and the order of the script changes? It will be a pain to fix it and keep track of all the code and its dependencies.

This problem has been addressed in different ways. One is to create a module syntax to create, load, and declare explicitly the dependencies of modules; the syntax is called AMD (Asynchronous Module Definition). The AMD modules define a list of module dependencies, and the code inside the module will be executed only after the dependencies are fully loaded.

The dependencies...

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