Category: AMD

Modular JavaScript: A Beginners Guide to SystemJS & jspm

Over the past few years, the JavaScript programming language has exploded in popularity. It has become the go-to language for developing both rich web applications, as well as hybrid mobile applications. And as JavaScript projects are becoming increasingly complex, developers are experiencing new requirements of the la...

Understanding JavaScript Modules: Bundling & Transpiling

This article was peer reviewed by Dan Prince and Ravi Kiran. Thanks to all of SitePoint’s peer reviewers for making SitePoint content the best it can be! Most folks consider modules, dependency management and dynamic loading a basic requirement for any modern programming language—these are some of the most impo...

Transpiling ES6 Modules to AMD & CommonJS Using Babel & Gulp

ECMAScript 6 (a.k.a ECMAScript 2015 or ES6), the specification for next version of JavaScript has been approved and browser vendors are hard at work implementing it Unlike the previous versions of ECMAScript, ES6 comes with a huge set of changes to the language to make it a good fit for the scale at which it is used t...