I'm not sure what the following sentence is saying, and I suspect that there's a typo.
If you’ve read the earlier chapter on AMD, you may have noticed that explicitly needing to define each dependency a Backbone module (view, collection or other module) may require with it can get a little tedious.
Thanks for catching this. I believe there may need to be a "dependency as a Backbone module" may be what I originally intended on writing there. I'll have a read through to determine if this can be made clearer.
I'm not sure what the following sentence is saying, and I suspect that there's a typo.