Ask HN: Requirejs vs Google Closure For Javascript Dependency Management

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13 years ago

I tend to lean towards requirejs because there is great tooling ( see my project agilejs to see several tools composed together forming a useful toolkit: http://github.com/davidjnelson/agilejs ) and a lot of libraries and components seem to be supporting AMD these days.

I know google internally uses closure for dependency management. There are tools like plovr which are a step in the right direction.

Anyone have experience with both and can share pros/cons?

My use case ( which I'm sure others share ) is writing clean, componentized JavaScript which enables simple tdd and ci without reinventing the wheel for each new project, requiring manual setup steps, or requiring lists of JavaScript source files ( or worse, duplicated lists ).

Thanks :-)

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