I think you’ve answered your own question pretty clearly. For production, we do – as well as most companies I’ve worked with option 3. Here are advantages of solution 3, and why I think you should use it: It utilizes the most caching, all common functionality is loaded once. Taking the least traffic and generating … Read more
The limitation relates to the simplified CommonJS syntax vs. the normal callback syntax: http://requirejs.org/docs/whyamd.html#commonjscompat https://github.com/jrburke/requirejs/wiki/Differences-between-the-simplified-CommonJS-wrapper-and-standard-AMD-define Loading a module is inherently an asynchronous process due to the unknown timing of downloading it. However, RequireJS in emulation of the server-side CommonJS spec tries to give you a simplified syntax. When you do something like this: var foomodule … Read more