Awesome
require
Dropin require
polyfill for the browser
Really useful in development for when you don't want to crank up browserify.
Super simple.
Fully swappable with browserify and friends in production.
Installation
- Include the script and serve it (it won't work direct from the filesystem due to browser security)
<script src='require.js'></script>
or use it direct from rawgit
<script src='//rawgit.com/weepy/brequire/master/require.js'></script>
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Code like a boss
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You can optionally include the PARSEJS library which will help point point any syntax errors in your code whilst
Compilers
You can add compilers for coffeescript, css, JSX or whatever in very simply by registering a handler like
require.compilers.css = function(text) {
var style = document.createElement('style');
style.appendChild(document.createTextNode(text));
document.head.appendChild(style);
}
This will allow you to include css on page like :
require("./style.css")
Production
It uses Sync XHR which is great for development, but not so much in production.
Forunately, you can swap out this library with browserify or similar in production.