JavaScript dependency management

Question

I am currently maintaining a large number of JS files and the dependency issue is growing over my head. Right now I have each function in a separate file and I manually main

Answer 1

Have you tried using a dependency manager like RequireJS or LabJS? I noticed no one's mentioned them in this thread.

From http://requirejs.org/docs/start.html:

Inside of main.js, you can use require() to load any other scripts you need to run:

require(["helper/util"], function(util) {
    //This function is called when scripts/helper/util.js is loaded.
    //If util.js calls define(), then this function is not fired until
    //util's dependencies have loaded, and the util argument will hold
    //the module value for "helper/util".
});

You can nest those dependencies as well, so helper/util can require some other files within itself.