Advantage over RequireJS

[requirejs]

Advantage over RequireJS

[jrburke]

It is the size. Using minified/gzipped numbers, right now requirejs is about 6kb and almond is about 1kb. That difference matters to some folks, particularly if the number of modules are relatively small and they want to package them up as a single file JS library for use by others that may or may not use require.js on their pages.

As you mention though, to get a smaller size it means reduced functionality, so almond is not appropriate for all use cases.

Closing this as part of bug triage, but feel free to continue discussion in this ticket.

[pgherveou]

James to avoid parsing / adding some polyfills to my main js bundle I created a module that load these guys async when necessary
how could I deal with this if I start using Almond ?

if (!Modernizr.geolocation) {
  require(['polyfills/pf-geolocation']);
}
// ... 

if (!window.JSON) {
  return require(['polyfills/pf-json']);
}

[jrburke]

@pgherveou Almond does not do dynamic loading, so it could not do that on-demand loading. You could include those polyfills in the built file with almond, and if they are wrapped in a define() call, then they will not be executed unless they are part of a top level require dependency call, like the ones you have above. Although note that those require([]) calls finish async.

[pgherveou]

Thks @jrburke, So I guess, It comes down to what's best between

• parsing + file size of Require JS
  vs
• parsing + file size of Almond & extra files