es5-shim – Tarik Billa

How to provide ECMAScript 5 (ES 5)-shim?

September 1, 2023 by Tarik

ES5-Shim will only shim parts that the browsers don’t implement, so just give it to all browsers. It’ll handle the detection of what needs to be shimmed and what doesn’t. But pay attention to the caveats listed on what shims don’t work correctly in some instances. I’ve had issues with that in the past and … Read more

Requirejs why and when to use shim config

January 7, 2023 by Tarik

A primary use of shim is with libraries that don’t support AMD, but you need to manage their dependencies. For example, in the Backbone and Underscore example above: you know that Backbone requires Underscore, so suppose you wrote your code like this: require([‘underscore’, ‘backbone’] , function( Underscore, Backbone ) { // do something with Backbone … Read more