TerrificJS & modularization / js dependency management

[Igor Minar]

http://www.terrifically.org/

These guys are going with the super-hero theme as well. :-) 

I looked at some of their examples, but it looks like their super-hero will die from over-typing before he has a chance to save the world. http://jsfiddle.net/brunschgi/uzjSM/

One nice thing they did figure out was js dependency management (load a js file (e.g. jquery plugin) only when it is needed. We could do the same by extending the $route service as I intended anyway.

Something like:

$route.when('/foo', { template: 'foo.html', controller: Foo, requires: ['foo.js'] }

Internally, we would keep track of what was already loaded, and we would load only js files that weren't evaluated yet.

It's not a feature that is high on my list, but wanted to throw it out there in case people have other thoughts or suggestions.

/i

[Vojta Jina]

I would extract this "lazy loading" mechanism into separate service, which could be called onRouteChange. Then you can use the service even without $route...

But that's just quick idea - maybe we actually don't need that...

V.

[Igor Minar]

onRouteChange is too late, similarly to the template, these js dependencies must be loaded before the controller is instantiated.

/i

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[Vojta Jina]

The controller is instantiated after onChange callbacks, but you are right - this is bit more complicated, as we need to wait for the <script> to be downloaded and evaluated...

V.