developjs is a repository of MIT-licensed tooling to make developing JavaScript just a little bit less painful. It can be used standalone (when cloned from GitHub; remember to do git submodule update --init --recursive), but is intended to work closely with classjs. An example user of both developjs and classjs is mongojs, a client-side mongoDB database driver which uses WebSockets.

The main pieces it provides are:-

• DevelopModule, a synchronous JavaScript loader framework that allows one to load packages and modules, irrespective of whether they are individual files or need to be concatenated;
• Extraction of common namespace (module) logic, allowing rapid development and best-practice little files
• Removal of the need to write common boilerplate all over the place
• A simple build framework to concatenate and minify files