If you find RequireJS a bit too intrusive you could check out a dependency manager I wrote: https://github.com/judofyr/dep.js https://github.com/judofyr/dep.js

If you find RequireJS a bit too intrusive you could check out a dependency manager I wrote: https://github.com/judofyr/dep.js https://github.com/judofyr/dep.js It's tiny (411 bytes minified; 268 bytes gzipped) and only handles dependency management. It's excellent if you just want to avoid worrying about the order you concatenate your files, but it's also possible write a basic RequireJS-style script-loader on top of it.