diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 368445f..4f1a31a 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ before_install:
     - time sudo apt-get update
     - time sudo apt-get install pandoc casperjs nodejs libzmq3-dev
     - time pip install -f https://nipy.bic.berkeley.edu/wheelhouse/travis jinja2 sphinx pygments tornado requests mock pyzmq jsonschema jsonpointer
+    - time npm install requirejs r.js jquery
 install:
     - time python setup.py install -q 
 script:
diff --git a/IPython/html/static/notebook/js/textcell.js b/IPython/html/static/notebook/js/textcell.js
index ce30bc2..f1db79a 100644
--- a/IPython/html/static/notebook/js/textcell.js
+++ b/IPython/html/static/notebook/js/textcell.js
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ define([
     'base/js/security',
     'notebook/js/mathjaxutils',
     'notebook/js/celltoolbar',
-], function(IPython, $, cell, security, mathjaxutils, celltoolbar) {
+    'components/marked/lib/marked',
+], function(IPython, $, cell, security, mathjaxutils, celltoolbar, marked) {
     "use strict";
     var Cell = cell.Cell;
 
diff --git a/IPython/nbconvert/filters/marked.js b/IPython/nbconvert/filters/marked.js
index 2816630..aa98ac7 100644
--- a/IPython/nbconvert/filters/marked.js
+++ b/IPython/nbconvert/filters/marked.js
@@ -5,50 +5,59 @@
 // IPython static_path dir relative to here:
 var static_path = __dirname + "/../../html/static/";
 
-var fs = require('fs');
-var IPython;
-// marked can be loaded with require,
-// the others must be execfiled
-var marked = require(static_path + 'components/marked/lib/marked.js');
-
-eval(fs.readFileSync(static_path + "components/highlight.js/build/highlight.pack.js", 'utf8'));
-eval(fs.readFileSync(static_path + "base/js/namespace.js", 'utf8'));
+// Excerpt from the example in require.js docs
+// http://requirejs.org/docs/node.html
+var requirejs = require('requirejs');
+requirejs.config({
+    //Pass the top-level main.js/index.js require
+    //function to requirejs so that node modules
+    //are loaded relative to the top-level JS file.
+    nodeRequire: require,
+    baseUrl: static_path,
+});
 
-eval(fs.readFileSync(static_path + "base/js/utils.js", 'utf8'));
-eval(fs.readFileSync(static_path + "notebook/js/mathjaxutils.js", 'utf8'));
+requirejs([
+    'fs',
+    'components/marked/lib/marked',
+    'components/highlight.js/build/highlight.pack',
+    'base/js/utils',
+    'notebook/js/mathjaxutils',
+    ], function(fs, marked, hljs, utils, mathjaxutils) {
 
-// this is copied from notebook.main. Should it be moved somewhere we can reuse it?
-marked.setOptions({
-    gfm : true,
-    tables: true,
-    langPrefix: "language-",
-    highlight: function(code, lang) {
-        if (!lang) {
-            // no language, no highlight
-            return code;
-        }
-        var highlighted;
-        try {
-            highlighted = hljs.highlight(lang, code, false);
-        } catch(err) {
-            highlighted = hljs.highlightAuto(code);
+    // this is copied from notebook.main. Should it be moved somewhere we can reuse it?
+    marked.setOptions({
+        gfm : true,
+        tables: true,
+        langPrefix: "language-",
+        highlight: function(code, lang) {
+            if (!lang) {
+                // no language, no highlight
+                return code;
+            }
+            var highlighted;
+            try {
+                highlighted = hljs.highlight(lang, code, false);
+            } catch(err) {
+                highlighted = hljs.highlightAuto(code);
+            }
+            return highlighted.value;
         }
-        return highlighted.value;
-    }
-});
+    });
 
-// read the markdown from stdin
-var md='';
-process.stdin.on("data", function (data) {
-    md += data;
-});
+    // read the markdown from stdin
+    var md='';
+    process.stdin.on("data", function (data) {
+        md += data;
+    });
+
+    // perform the md2html transform once stdin is complete
+    process.stdin.on("end", function () {
+        var text_and_math = mathjaxutils.remove_math(md);
+        var text = text_and_math[0];
+        var math = text_and_math[1];
+        var html = marked.parser(marked.lexer(text));
+        html = mathjaxutils.replace_math(html, math);
+        process.stdout.write(html);
+    });
 
-// perform the md2html transform once stdin is complete
-process.stdin.on("end", function () {
-    var text_and_math = IPython.mathjaxutils.remove_math(md);
-    var text = text_and_math[0];
-    var math = text_and_math[1];
-    var html = marked.parser(marked.lexer(text));
-    html = IPython.mathjaxutils.replace_math(html, math);
-    process.stdout.write(html);
 });