Preferred way of writing CommonJS plugins for jQuery

Question

The latest jQuery v1 (as of now: v1.10.2) finally uses CommonJS. This allows to use it as a node module, e.g. with webmake.

What is the preferred way of writing plugins for jQuery in a CommonJS compatible way?

The following seems logical to me:

1. If CommonJS is not available fall back to other techniques (AMD, global objects)

2. Require jQuery like:

   var $ = require('jQuery');
   

3. Define new functions/objects (jQuery can be used with $)

4. Export those new functions/objects by assigning them to module.exports, e.g.:

   module.exports.newFunc = newFunc;
   

Should I do it that way? Are there good alternatives?

Answer 1

Take a look at https://github.com/umdjs/umd - this is a wrapper for both AMD and CommonJS.