Greg Frankois a 24-year-old JavaScript engineer at AddThis and the maintainer of several

popular open source JavaScript projects. He is also a technical writer who blogs regularly

at http://gregfranko.comand has contributed to the open source book, Backbone.js

Fundamentals, O'Reilly Medi

Welcome to Dependency Management with RequireJS How-to. Here, we will learn the concepts

of the Asynchronous Module Definition (AMD) specification and how using Require.js, an AMD

script loader built by James Burke, can improve the performance and maintainability of your web

application. We will specifically learn how to integrate Require.js with popular libraries, such as

jQuery, the jQueryUI Widget Factory, Backbone.js, Lodash.js, Jasmine, and more, into an AMD

workflow. We will also review popular Require.js plugins and learn how to incorporate them to

support common web development tasks, including dynamically rendering JavaScript templates,

optimizing JavaScript files (that is, concatenating and minifying), and more.

Applications of all sizes can benefit from using Require.js. A small application can squeeze

out every last kilobyte (KB) of performance using Require.js APIs for asynchronous loading

and dynamic asset loading. Intermediate- to large-sized applications can become more

maintainable by using the Require.js dependency management API to track file dependencies

and decouple large files into smaller modules.