almond

Very nice! It reminds me of these two loader experiments: https://curiosity-driven.org/amd-loader-with-promises https://curiosity-driven.org/minimal-loader But for production builds I highly recommend Almond: https://github.com/jrburke/almond

To further clarify, RequireJS also allows you to bundle all JS into a single file via the r.js build step. If you're planning on going that route with RequireJS, you should also look into AlmondJS: https://github.com/jrburke/almond

This is depressingly ill-informed. Require.js has an optimizer that does exactly what the author suggests: http://requirejs.org/docs/optimization.html The point is to build your application using AMD, using individual assets in development, and then run the optimizer - which concats and adds a loader - for production. Alternatively, you can even go a step simpler and always use concatenated files, along with a minimal loader like Almond.js[1]. If you do this, you'll probably want to use something that adds source maps for your concatenated file (for easier debugging), but that's easy - you can use grunt-concat-sourcemap[2] or a similar plugin for whatever build system you like. [1]: https://github.com/jrburke/almond [2]: https://github.com/kozy4324/grunt-concat-sourcemap