Christian Heilmann

My 24ways/webkrauts article about Keeping JavaScript Dependencies at bay

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 at 6:25 pm

Jetlagged like hell and confused I just arrived back from my holiday in Hong Kong, fired up my computer at home and realized that today it was my turn to say something on the advent calendar sites of the web:

The article describes a small and easy framework to create a modular JavaScript application that loads dependencies on demand and still gives you full control over what has already been loaded.

This is heavily inspired by the YUI config object and my talk at ajaxWorld East in March will deal with a similar topic.

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