[Sugar-devel] sugar-web - How to load non-AMD js modules / libs?

[Rogelio Mita]

a small intrigue was presented to us related to the way of defining the
requirejs "activity" module:
https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-web-template/blob/master/js/activity.js

We note that there are some alternatives to define modules proposed by
requirejs: Define a Module with Simplified CommonJS
Wrapper<http://requirejs.org/docs/api.html#cjsmodule> and
Define a Module as a
Function<http://requirejs.org/docs/api.html#funcmodule>, and
we no found any other apparent reason that this: *"If you wish to reuse
some code that was written in the traditional CommonJS module format it May
be Difficult to re-work to the array of dependencies used above, and you
May prefer to Have direct alignment of dependency name to the local
Variable used for that dependency "*.
Then, there is some particularity reason for you chose to use the "Define a
CommonJS Module with Simplified Wrapper" way?, it's just a curiosity that
can help us solve the intrigue =).
Maybe for having a reason for
var activity = require("sugar-web/activity/activity"); ?


2013/11/1 Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>

> Yeah I think it make sense to mention it in the documentation, it's
> something every developer will run into. I'd suggest to try and keep our
> own documentation as short as possible and link out to the requirejs shim
> doc though, to avoid duplication and help maintenance.
>
> sounds good


>
> On Saturday, 2 November 2013, Code wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Daniel!
>> I'd rather use "shim", too.
>>
>> I think it's a common need to have non-AMD dependencies when building an
>> activity.
>> What do you think about finding out a canonical way to achieve this and
>> write it down in "write your own activity" doc?
>>
>> I'm willing to make a pull-request with the updated doc.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Code
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I think we have been suggesting to use the shim. Modifying loader.js
>>> should be fine, the template one shouldn't change often.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1 November 2013 22:02, Code <iraguet at activitycentral.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello, list!
>>>> I'd like to add a non-AMD lib (AngularJS in this case) to my activity.
>>>>
>>>> Here only points out how to add AMD ones:
>>>>
>>>> http://developer.sugarlabs.org/activity.md.html#using%20other%20javascript%20libraries
>>>>
>>>> Of course there are workarounds like adding script tags (I'd rather
>>>> not) or setting up the "shim" option from RequireJS config...
>>>> https://github.com/code-sur/web-activity-POC/blob/master/js/loader.js
>>>>
>>>> But it seems that I shouldn't be touching the loader.js file, isn't it?
>>>>
>>>> Is there a standard/preferred way to achieve this?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Code
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
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Thanks!

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Roger

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