I've been using RequireJS for dependency management and must say that I love it - JavaScript has really matured recently.
However, one thing I cannot figure out is this: When using the optimizer to bundle all my JavaScript modules into one file, how can I keep loading some thirt party scripts (such as jquery) from an external CDN URL instead of having to bundle it with my application code?
This will load jQuery from a CDN:
<script src="http://requirejs.org/docs/release/2.1.5/comments/require.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
require.config({
paths: {
"jquery": "https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.1/jquery.min"
},
waitSeconds: 40
});
</script>
<div id="message">hello</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
require( ["jquery"],
function ($) {
alert($.fn.jquery + "\n" + $("#message").text());
}
);
</script>
Fiddle Here.
This page from the requirejs docs shows how to eliminate a path from the optimised build. Basically use the empty:
scheme. Excerpt here:
node ../../r.js -o name=main out=main-built.js baseUrl=. paths.jquery=empty: