http://simonwillison.net/2009-04-30T19:59:39+00:00Simon Willison2009-04-30T19:59:39+00:002009-04-30T19:59:39+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/30/module/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://snook.ca/archives/javascript/no-love-for-module-pattern">Why I don&#x27;t love JavaScript&#x27;s Module Pattern</a></strong></p> Jonathan Snook points out that the module pattern (where private functionality is hidden in a closure and only public methods are revealed to outside scopes) makes code a lot harder to debug. I use the module pattern for pretty much everything, not because I want to keep stuff private but more to avoid any chance of leaking out in to the global namespace. If I need to debug a value I temporarily assign it as a property on the global window object. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/closures">closures</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/debugging">debugging</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jonathan-snook">jonathan-snook</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/modulepattern">modulepattern</a></p>