JavaScript: Novice to Ninja, 2nd Edition

Chapter 15: Modern JavaScript Development

As you build more and more complex JavaScript projects, you’ll find the amount of code you’re using increases into hundreds and then thousands of lines. This can be difficult to manage without some sort of organizing. The first step is to break the code into separate files, but this presents its own problems, such as how to include all the files on a web page, and which code to put in which files. Indeed, how do you ensure that a file has access to the code in another file?

Just as real-life ninjas have lots of nifty weapons such as nunchakus and shuriken stars, there are lots of cool tools that a JavaScript ninja can use to help organize code and make it run more efficiently. In this chapter, we’ll ...