Wednesday 10 June 2015

JavaScript Namespacing Made Easy

I am sure all of us have had painful experiences with spaghetti JavaScript and hopefully came to realize the value in having it structured JavaScript.

Hopefully this will help with some of the namespacing pains, JavaScript does not have native namespaces but it does have JSON objects that is the next best thing. Some advantages:
  • Allowing complex structured JavaScript facilitates navigation in IDE (Go to definition)
  • Scoping in namespaces allows easier browsing and debugging in browser (Predictive text)
A normal namespace implementation



What is the advantage of using this namespacing library?
  • Easily create namespace chain with dotted notation
  • Flexible ordering (E.g. Create level 3 then define level 2)
  • Merging of namespace content on multiple declaration


 Feel free to download and use (No guarantees but suggestions or bug feedback welcome).

Examples creating namespaces using this library: