[axelf]

I consider Separation of Concerns, Dependency Injection, and TDD to be basic software engineering principles. Sure if you have a mostly static page with a few dynamic components jQuery will work fine, but with a larger project that you really need to consider a more maintainable architecture.

[mattmcknight]

"Separating configuration from use" is the principle, and dependency injection is one of many patterns used to aim for that... http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html#Separati...