Circular Dependencies for a web app using backbone.marionette and requireJs

Question

I am in the following situation.

I am using requireJs to loads module and I don\'t want to use global variables.

The main.js is responsible to load the router.

Answer 1

In my project, I use the following dependency: main.js -> app -> router -> subApp.

In app.js, I create a single global variable that holds a pointer to my app:

define([...], function(...) {
return {
  initialize: function() {
    window.MyApp = new Backbone.Marionette.Application();
    // ...
    MyApp.start();
  }
};
});

This makes it extremely easy to access my app's regions from anywhere, as well as store global state information in one name space.

I tried doing it without the global app at first, but eventually gave up and found this approach to be a lot more flexible.