Using.js is a simple asynchronous script dependency loader for web browsers that allows a developer to write blocks of code in this fashion:
// register in a preceding script ..
using.register("jquery", true, "http://cachefile.net/scripts/jquery-1.2.3.js");
.. then consume synchronously ..
using("jquery"); // synchronously loads jQuery and de-registers jQuery from using
$("a").css("text-decoration", "none");
.. or asynchronously ..
using ('jquery', function() {
// do work using jQuery constructs
});
It documents dependencies within script and alleviates the need for fussing with injecting script dependencies on specific page headers. It also supports dependency trees, i.e. using('jquery-ui' ...) might depend upon jQuery, which would be loaded first.
Similar loaders exist such as RequireJS. I am not antagonistic towards those, use what you please, but I chose the name, syntax, and behavior of using.js because it has some level of parallel to coding conventions in other languages such as C#.
For more information about how to use using.js, please view the history in the Wiki.