supporting both CommonJS and AMD

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Yes, and I owe this answer to ded and his awesome modules:

(function(name, definition) {
    if (typeof module != 'undefined') module.exports = definition();
    else if (typeof define == 'function' && typeof define.amd == 'object') define(definition);
    else this[name] = definition();
}('mod', function() {
    //This is the code you would normally have inside define() or add to module.exports
    return {
        sayHi: function(name) {
            console.log('Hi ' + name + '!');
        }
    };
}));

This can then be used:

  1. in AMD (e.g. with requireJS):

    requirejs(['mod'], function(mod) {
    mod.sayHi('Marc');
});

  2. in commonJS (e.g. nodeJS):

    var mod = require('./mod');
mod.sayHi('Marc');

  3. globally (e.g. in HTML):

    <script src="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13673346/mod.js"></script>
<script>mod.sayHi('Marc');</script>

This method needs to get more publicity – if jQuery and co. started using it life would be much easier!

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