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I want to develop a template kind of similar to the following web app http://www.arcgis.com/apps/OnePane/basicviewer/index.html
The esri "boilerplate" might be a good starting point.
Blog: http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2013/08/29/step-up-to-the-boilerplate/
Code: https://github.com/Esri/application-boilerplate-js
Check out "The abc�??s of AMD" blog post from last fall.
Another tool to be aware of is Sitepen's dojo-amd-converter. I haven't actually used it�?? it came out about a month after we finished converting all JS API modules to AMD.