I will introduce you to one more JavaScript framework that can be helpful in development. UnderscoreJS (http://underscorejs.org/) is a framework that brings functional programming constructs and techniques to the language. The library contains over 100 methods that add functional support to JavaScript.
UnderscoreJS is a single JavaScript file downloaded just like jQuery and RequireJS. If you add the requisite versioned underscore.js file to the /js/lib folder, then you already have the means to inject it into your application. Here is the additional configuration in the file, require-setup.js:
var require = {
shim: {
"bootstrap" : { "deps" :['jquery'] },
"jquery": { exports: '$' },
"underscore": { exports: '_'}
},
paths: {
"jquery" : "jquery-2.1.3",
"bootstrap" : "bootstrap-3.2.0",
"underscore" : "underscore-1.8.2"
}
};UnderscoreJS exports the symbol underscore (_) for its library to a developer and its function methods are accessible through...