My friend recently asked me “Do you have any advice for encapsulating javascript or how to break an application into files/namespaces? Most of what I see online for javascript is hacky and not about designing for maintainability.” Turns out I do!
First of all, you need jasmine and jasmine-jquery. I always thought TDD was a nice but impractical idea until I had an environment with fast tests. At Contour I had 130 jasmine tests (averaging maybe 3 assertions each) running in 500ms.