The Essentials of AMD and RequireJS: New on Tuts+ Premium

In this Tuts+ Premium screencast, we’ll review RequireJS, an asynchronous module loader and dependency manager, and AMD, which defines the mechanism and guidelines for declaring and importing modules.

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You’ll Learn:

• What is AMD? Why is it helpful?
• How to use RequireJS, which implements the AMD spec.
• How to create, store, and reference modules.
• How to integrate the use plugin.
• How to import scripts, which do not register themselves as AMD modules.
• A lightning-fast run-through of importing and working with Backbone.js.

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