Require Config

A node module to refer to and output (on the server-side) the client side require.js config.

Scope

This library is created to accumulate all good efforts around describing an app's dependencies with a require.config object

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Install

npm install require-config

Methods

.deps( script )

Adds a new dependency. Accepted formats for script:

• a string: "%SOURCE%"
• an object: { "%NAME%" : "%SOURCE%" }
• an array: [{ "%NAME%" : "%SOURCE%" }, { "%NAME%" : "%SOURCE%" },...]

.shim( name, options )

Setup shims for each javascript file.

The options is not mandatory and if a 'known' shim is found it will always override the options passed.

In addition, if autoshim is enabled the shim will be enriched by including the previous script in the (individual) deps list.

.paths( name, script(s) )

Add a new path for a script (name). Usually automatically added with each dependency - can be called manually to include fallback script locations...

.set( options )

A wilcard method to create any configuration options, not only in deps, shim,paths.

.render()

Outputs the whole configuration in a JS object. Accepts no options (currently)

.build()

Like render but optimizing config for r.js compilation

Parameters

cache

A boolean option to set (or not) a cache busting variable at the end of each script. In the require.js docs this is mentioned as urlArgs.

Default is true

autoshim

A boolean option to attempt to automatically create shims for every file. The current implementation is vary basic, basically requiring the previous script in the deps of the each script. A short list of shims for popular js libs is included (in a static form) - more to be included in later releases.

Default is true

Usage

// initiate lib
var r = require("require-config")({ cache : false });

// set base folder
r.set({ baseUrl : "/assets/js" });

// add some dependencies

// - as a plain string:
r.deps("//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min");

// - or an object:
r.deps("//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min");

// finally render the js object
r.render()

While rendering a view you can output the config as a JSON:

output +=  '<script type="text/javascript">var require = '+ r.render({ string: true }) +'</script>';

Roadmap

• Read config from package.json (using require-package)

• Parse rendered view and include script tags in the configuration

Credits

Created by: Makis Tracend

Distributed by Makesites.org

Released under the MIT license