jsbuild is a generic tool to compile large JavaScript projects and manage dependencies both within projects and across projects.
As I developed more and more JavaScript libraries for the web, I grew to use a very specific mechanism for managing dependencies and isolating code. All of the source files in my JavaScript libraries are not enclosed by functions. In addition, the code uses an exports variable to expose functions and values to other APIs or to other files within the API. At compile time, each source file is wrapped in a function and given an object for the exports variable. The exports variable is traditionally accessed globally as window.APINAME, creating a reasonable way for APIs to access each other on the web.
jsbuild is licensed under the Don't Be A Dick Public License.
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Code is provided with no warranty. Using somebody else's code and bitching when it goes wrong makes you a DONKEY dick. Fix the problem yourself. A non-dick would submit the fix back.