Re: [xwiki-devs] [PROPOSAL] Include require.js in XWiki by default and make jQuery available through require.js.

Hi, I'd like to add require.js to XWiki to be included in every page just before prototype.js. I would also like to add jQuery to our resources directory but only make it available to scripts which "pull it in" using require(). I have come to the conclusion that jQuery is a de-facto standard and even if we don't port to it, we should make it available to our users. Require.js is an implementation of the Asynchronous Module Definition standard which will allow us to use both jQuery and prototype relatively harmoniously. I think it's obvious that if javascript rich webapps are going to scale, they need modularity and I've reviewed AMD and the main competitor CommonJS and concluded that AMD will provide the user with better page load time by asynchronously loading modules according to a dependency tree while CommonJS blocks on each call to require(). I would like to see us move away from prototype but it provides more functionality than jQuery including an OOP framework and while there are other libraries which show promise, I don't feel right proposing a best practice without first porting some code to it to see what issues arise so IMO we should begin using require.js but accept that prototype still has it's place.