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Writing modular JavaScript without polluting the global namespace

Marco Franssen

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Most of you have already seen a lot of spaghetti JavaScript code. One of the reasons you are reading this article will probably be, you don't want to make the same mistakes as others have done. So let's make the next step and stop polluting the global JavaScript namespace. Why is it bad to have all your script code available at global level? First of all you can possibly get a lot of errors when using modules developed by others, because you used the same names for you variables etc. The seco…