fetchamd

A lightweight AMD module loader for the client-side.

Have you ever wanted to load up a library programmatically, like Underscore, D3, or something you've written yourself and felt it's just out of your grasp? Enter fetchamd, your dead simple AMD loader.

var load = require('fetchamd');

load([
    'http://example.org/module1.js',
    '/res/modules/module2.js'
], function(module1, module2){
    // module1 and module2 are ready to use.
});

Features/support

This library is not intended as a replacement for RequireJS or other fully featured module loaders. This library doesn't implement the full AMD spec for recursive module loading or relative name resolution. Thus, it is intended as a loader for discrete pre-compiled modules (such as those compiled with Browserify) rather than full trees of AMD dependencies.

Supports:

• Require single or multiple modules.
• Async loading & optimal script insertion (utilises browser compile/caching optimisations)
• Basic implementation for older IEs using jQuery's preexisting implementation. This reduces the size and complexity of this library.

Differences from AMD spec:

• Relative module loading is not implemented (if module "a/b/c" asks for "../d", AMD resolves to "a/d"). For this reason:
• Dependencies are not supported. Use Browserify to bundle up your dependencies prior to loading, or load them yourself.

Development

Tests for this module are written in Mocha + Chai & require a web server (such as Python's SimpleHTTPServer). To test this module:

1. npm install to make sure you have all the dependencies.
2. npm run server to start a web server (this step requires Python, but you can run this from your own web server if you'd prefer).
3. Open http://0.0.0.0:8000/test/ in your browser to run the tests.