How to add Tether in Aurelia-CLI to use with Boots

Question

I am trying to add Bootstrap 4 to Aurelia. I can only get the CSS to work but the bootstrap.js requires Tether and I can't get it included, since I keep getting this error in the console:

Bootstrap tooltips require Tether

I tried something along this

"jquery",
"Tether",
{
  "name": "tether",
  "path": "../node_modules/tether/dist",
  "main": "js/tether.min",
  "exports": "Tether",
  "resources": [
    "css/tether.css"
  ]
},
{
  "name": "bootstrap",
  "path": "../node_modules/bootstrap/dist",
  "main": "js/bootstrap.min",
  "deps": ["tether", "jquery"],
  "exports": "$",
  "resources": [
    "css/bootstrap.css"
  ]
},

It does bundle, but it's still complaining about the missing Tether. I read on another stack answer that I have to makeTetheravailable globally which could be done viarequirejs.config.js` with this

define(['lib/tether.min'], function(tether) {
    window.Tether = tether;    
});

but there's no such config with Aurelia.

Answer 1

After some more time spent on this, I believe that I came up with something working. I don't see anymore errors and I am now able to use Bootstrap tooltip, so I will assume this is the working solution.

All the changes were made inside the aurelia.json configuration file, as the following:

"prepend": [
   "node_modules/bluebird/js/browser/bluebird.core.js",
   "node_modules/tether/dist/js/tether.min.js",
   "scripts/require.js"
],
"dependencies": [
    ...
    "aurelia-templating-binding",
    "jquery",
    "tether",
    {
        "name": "bootstrap",
        "path": "../node_modules/bootstrap/dist",
        "main": "js/bootstrap.min",
        "deps": ["jquery", "tether"],
        "exports": "$",
        "resources": [
            "css/bootstrap.css"
        ]
    },
    ...

So basically, I just had to add it to the prepend to get it working. Also note that adding tether inside the deps[] array has no effect (probably because Tether is now global with the prepend), but I like to see it there as a reminder that it's a dependencies anyway.

EDIT

As mentioned by @Paul-Sebastian, it's probably better to remove tether from showing up in the deps of Bootstrap to remove possibility of double inclusion. Basically this is the updated code:

"tether",
{
    "name": "bootstrap",
    "path": "../node_modules/bootstrap/dist",
    "main": "js/bootstrap.min",
    "deps": ["jquery"],
    "exports": "$",
    "resources": [
        "css/bootstrap.css"
    ]
 },

EDIT #2

There is now also an append section that just got added to Aurelia-CLI to help with Legacy Library with Plugins. The section reads as the following:

A Very Stubborn Legacy Library With Plugins

Some legacy libraries may support plugins which you also want included in your bundle. In some cases these plugins depend on a global object defined by the main library, so it is important that the plugins exist later in the bundle than the main library scripts. These plugins can go in the append section, which works exactly the same as the prepend section but the scripts are appended to the end of the bundle, after all other items. Like the prepend section all items are relative to the project folder, not the src.