The overall goal for the AMD format is to provide a solution for modular JavaScript that developers can use today. It was born out of Dojo's real world experience using XHR+eval and proponents of this format wanted to avoid any future solutions suffering from the weaknesses of those in the past. When we say an app is modular, we generally mean it's composed of a set of highly decoupled, distinct pieces of functionality stored in modules. As you probably know, loose coupling facilitates easier maintainability of apps by removing dependencies where possible.
define("core", [], function(){
return {x: 11, y: 33 }
});
define("dom", [], function(){
return {a: 1, b: 2 }
});
define("event", [], function(){
return {b: 3, b: 5 }
});
define("jsonp", [], function(){
return {c: 7, d: 8 }
});
define("yql", [], function(){
return {e: 100, f: 200 }
});
define("router", [], function(){
return {get: function(){}, run: function(){}}
});
require(["core","dom","event","jsonp", "router"], function(core, dom, event, jsonp, yql, app){
app.get("search/:what", function( data ){
console.log( data )
})
app.run();
//core object is available and ready to use
console.log(core)
//dom object is available and ready to use
console.log(dom)
//event object is available and ready to use
console.log(event)
//jsonp object is available and ready to use
console.log(jsonp)
//yql object is available and ready to use
console.log(yql)
});
Select a programming language <input type="text" id="tags" />
require(["ready", "dom", "autosuggest"], function(app, dom, widget){
var Autosuggest = widget.autosuggest
var suggestions = [
"ActionScript",
"AppleScript",
"Asp",
"BASIC",
"C",
"C++",
"Clojure",
"COBOL",
"ColdFusion",
"Erlang",
"Fortran",
"Groovy",
"Haskell",
"Java",
"JavaScript",
"Lisp",
"Perl",
"PHP",
"Python",
"Ruby",
"Scala",
"Scheme"];
app.ready(function(){
var suggest = Autosuggest(dom.select("#tags"), suggestions)
})
});
<ul id="menu">
<li>
<a href="#">Event Delegation List 1</a>
<ul>
<li>item1</li>
<li>item2</li>
<li>item3</li>
<li>item4</li>
<li>item5</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#">Event Delegation List 2</a>
<ul>
<li>item1</li>
<li>item2</li>
<li>item3</li>
<li>item4</li>
<li>item5</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#">Event Delegation List 3</a>
<ul>
<li>item1</li>
<li>item2</li>
<li>item3</li>
<li>item4</li>
<li>item5</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
require(["ready","dom","delegate"], function(r, dom, d){
var ready = r.ready,
delegate = d.delegate;
ready(function(){
delegate(dom.select("#menu"), 'li a', 'click', function( e ){
var ul = e.target.parentNode.querySelector("ul")
if(ul.style.display == "none") {
ul.css("display: block")
} else {
ul.css("display: none")
}
if(window.console) console.log(e.target)
}, false);
})
});
<div id="bd" role="main">
<div id="w">
<section id="sform">
<input type="text" id="s" name="s" class="sfield" placeholder="Enter a search tag..." autocomplete="off">
</section>
<section id="photos"></section>
</div>
</div>
require(["cui","dom","event","ajax"], function(cui, dom, event, ajaxobj){
var sfield = dom.select("#s"),
container = dom.select("#photos"),
timer;
function instaSearch() {
dom.addClass(sfield, "loading")
var q = dom.select("#s").value
var url = "proxy.php?q=" + q;
ajaxobj.ajax("GET", url, function( data ){
//eval JSON received from proxy.php
data = eval("(" + data + ")");
//remove the loading
dom.removeClass(sfield, "loading");
//define an empty variable
var output = '';
//for each object execute
dom.each(data, function(item, i) {
output += '<div class="p"><a href="'+data[i].src+'" class="fullsize" target="_blank"><img src="full-image.png" alt="fullsize"></a> <a href="'+data[i].url+'" target="_blank"><img src="'+data[i].thumb+'"></a></div>';
});
//insert the result to the container
container.html( output );
})
}
sfield.Keydown( function( e ){
if(e.keyCode == '32' || e.keyCode == '188' || e.keyCode == '189' || e.keyCode == '13' || e.keyCode == '190' || e.keyCode == '219' || e.keyCode == '221' || e.keyCode == '191' || e.keyCode == '220') {
e.preventDefault();
} else {
clearTimeout(timer);
timer = setTimeout(function() {
instaSearch();
}, 900);
}
});
});
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