JavaScript for Line of Business Applications

An often overlooked piece of JavaScript examples, tutorials and discussion is the writing of libraries/modules.

While there is a vibrant community of people writing UI centric jQuery Plugins with a de-facto style and methodology, paging through Github repositories of the many libraries, frameworks, plugins, etc will show an extremely disparate set of coding styles and methods.

 

History, ES6, Transpilers and AMD

 

As more and more browsers support experimental ES6 Module Features, and others use transpilers to write in ES6 transpiling to shim'd JavaScript/ECMAScript5 which export to AMD format & client-side JavaScript becomes even more complex and large, users will use module style coding as the standard.

Regardless of whether or not you want to support CommonJS, RequireJS/AMD or just write a library which aliases its' constructor or main method/object to the window: anyone could benefit from writing small, testable and compartmentalized modules.