RequireJS 0.11 Released; Ready for jQuery

James Burke is moving quickly with his RequireJS library. He recently posted about the requirements that John Resig has for a script loader for jQuery:

1. script loading must be async
2. script loading should do as much in parallel as possible. This means in particular, that it should be possible to avoid dynamic nested dependency loading.
3. it looks like a script wrapper is needed to allow #1 and #2 to work effectively, particularly for cross-domain loading. It is unfortunate, but a necessity for script loading in browsers.

With the RequireJS 0.11.0 release James feels like he has the features to make that real:

• There is a new priority config option to indicate priority, parallel download of build layers.
• A new JSONP plugin allows you to treat any JSONP service as dependency.
• require.js should be Caja-compliant. The plugins may not be, but the main require.js file passed cajoling on http://caja.appspot.com/.
• Instructions and optimization support for renaming require().
• There is a new RequireJS+Transport D download option that supports the CommonJS Transport D proposal. This can be useful in conjunction with the server-side Transporter project.

James mentioned a server side scanning tool…. and Kyle Simpson (of LABjs) is almost ready to show something there too.