Chapter 6. Dependency Management

One of the things that’s held JavaScript back as a language has been the lack of dependency management and a module system. Unlike other languages, namespacing and modules aren’t something traditionally emphasized when people are learning JavaScript. Indeed, popular libraries like jQuery don’t enforce any application structure; there’s definitely an onus on the developer to resolve this himself. Too often, I see spaghetti-styled JavaScript, with a crazy amount of indentation and anonymous functions. Does this look familiar?

function() {
  function() {
    function() {
      function() {

      }
    }
  }
}