Best practices for managing and deploying large JavaScript apps

Question

What are some standard practices for managing a medium-large JavaScript application? My concerns are both speed for browser download and ease and maintainability of developm

Answer 1

My strategy consist of 2 major techniques: AMD modules (to avoid dozens of script tags) and the Module pattern (to avoid tightly coupling of the parts of your application)

AMD Modules: very straight forward, see here: http://requirejs.org/docs/api.html also it's able to package all the parts of your app into one minified JS file: http://requirejs.org/docs/optimization.html

Module Pattern: i used this Library: https://github.com/flosse/scaleApp you asking now what is this ? more infos here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BGvy-S-Iag