title: JavaScript Module Pattern Vs. JQuery plugins
body: <p>why would I want to use the Module/Namespacing patterns such as the "revealing module pattern" when writing my applications, as opposed to just writing or getting a bunch of JQuery plugins and applying those?</p>
  
  <p>I guess I could mix them as well. Is there any obvious benefits though, one way or the other?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you.</p>
  
  <p>[EDIT]
  I'm really not sure why my question is being downvoted - I don't need help with a piece of code, rather just need clarification on choices.</p>
  
  <p>My confusion stemmed from looking at CSS frameworks such as Foundation. They have a Foundation.js file where they use jquery outside of the plugin architecture. For example, they'll have Foundation.alerts.js, Foundation.forms.js, etc...These are NOT Jquery plugins, yet it seems like that's the preferred way to do it.</p>