Learn TypeScript 3 by Building Web Applications

The Revealing Module pattern

To ease the pain, many developers started using object literals and naming conventions to try and avoid name clashes, but this wasn't so great. Others were more clever and leveraged JavaScript closures with IIFEs (we discussed those in Chapter 3, Improving TodoIt with Classes and Interfaces; IIFEs are anonymous, immediately invoked, function expressions) to encapsulate/isolate parts of their code and expose only the properties and functions that they wanted to.

This approach became known as the Revealing Module pattern (http://jargon.js.org/_glossary/REVEALING_MODULE_PATTERN.md). A popular example of this was jQuery, whose plugin system used this approach.

Here's a concrete example of a module using this pattern: ...