Modularise

[jreinhardt]

http://www.adequatelygood.com/2010/3/JavaScript-Module-Pattern-In-Depth

[jreinhardt]

Apparently there is another level of organisation, commonly called packages. There seem to be several ways to do that, on the one side commonjs http://www.commonjs.org/ that is more focusing on server side javascript and AMD https://github.com/amdjs/amdjs-api/wiki/AMD that is more focused on browser side.

[jreinhardt]

I did some research and it seems to be that:

• The module pattern (http://www.adequatelygood.com/2010/3/JavaScript-Module-Pattern-In-Depth) is actually quite nice until you have a large number of modules that depend on each other, so that using script tags to load them is impractical. And you can not use them in node.js
• The commonjs module loader is the one used in node.js and somewhat standard, but it does not allow to augment, so optionally loading metrics in the readable object seems not possible. It allows to manage dependencies, but is not really concerned with the browser.
• The AMD mechanism is more geared towards the browser, and by using some compatibility stuff also usable in node.

All in all I am not sure whether these module mechanisms solve a problem that we have. I would be content with the module pattern, but on the other hand being able to use readable also in node.js would be nice.