Why wait for Harmony? Use Asynchronous Modules with jQuery now!
Hosted by The jQuery Boston Meetup Group
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The next edition of JavaScript (aka "Harmony" or "ES.Next") promises to finally bring native modules to the language. Yay! Modules are hawt! But who cares? Current browsers don't support modules, and it's going to be 2019 before IE9 finally dies out.
No need to wait! Major corporations and modern JavaScript toolkits, such as dojo, SproutCore, and MooTools, are going 100% modules today. And now jQuery 1.7 plays nice with modules, too! Asynchronous Module Definition (aka "AMD") is the new standard in JavaScript modules. It works everywhere: on the server and in the browser. It's even at the core of Firebug!
In this presentation John Hann (aka unscriptable (http://unscriptable.com/)) will show you AMD's drop-dead simple API and cover its extensions to work with node.js and CommonJS modules. You'll learn how AMD solves