https://bravenewgeek.com/tag/amd/Recent content in Amd on Brave New GeekHugoen-usTue, 27 May 2014 18:30:13 -0600https://bravenewgeek.com/using-make-with-react-and-requirejs/Tue, 27 May 2014 18:30:13 -0600https://bravenewgeek.com/using-make-with-react-and-requirejs/<p><a href="http://requirejs.org/">RequireJS</a> is a great library for building modular JavaScript clients that conform to the <a href="https://github.com/amdjs/amdjs-api/wiki/AMD">AMD API specification</a>. It gives your JS an import-like mechanism by which you avoid global-namespace issues and makes your code behave more like a server-side language such as Python or Java. It also includes an optimization tool that can concatenate your JavaScript into a single file and minify it, which helps reduce HTTP overhead.</p> <p>I recently wrote about <a href="http://www.bravenewgeek.com/building-user-interfaces-with-react/" title="Building User Interfaces with React">React</a>, which is a library targeted at constructing UIs. React uses a special syntax called JSX for specifying DOM components in XML, and it compiles down to vanilla JavaScript. JSX can either be precompiled or compiled in the browser at runtime. The latter option has obvious performance implications and probably shouldn’t be used in production, but it works great for quickly hacking something together.</p>