How to write a module that works with Node.js, RequireJS as well as without them

Question

I am working on a JavaScript library for JSON/XML processing. My library works in browser as well as Node.js (with xmldom and xmlhttprequest modules).<

Answer 1

Take a look at how underscore.js handles it.

// Export the Underscore object for **Node.js**, with
// backwards-compatibility for the old `require()` API. If we're in
// the browser, add `_` as a global object.
if (typeof exports !== 'undefined') {
  if (typeof module !== 'undefined' && module.exports) {
    exports = module.exports = _;
  }
  exports._ = _;
} else {
  root._ = _;
}

...

// AMD registration happens at the end for compatibility with AMD loaders
// that may not enforce next-turn semantics on modules. Even though general
// practice for AMD registration is to be anonymous, underscore registers
// as a named module because, like jQuery, it is a base library that is
// popular enough to be bundled in a third party lib, but not be part of
// an AMD load request. Those cases could generate an error when an
// anonymous define() is called outside of a loader request.
if (typeof define === 'function' && define.amd) {
  define('underscore', [], function() {
    return _;
  });
}