michealbenedict/requirejs-bower-plugin

README bower.plugin

1. Install all the dependencies using bower install
2. If you need to add new libraries/dependencies (lib/dep) to the project, add in browser.json and run bower install. Voila, you`ll get access to that lib/dep

Example:

    /* browser.json */
    {
      "name": "test-app",
      "version": "0.0.1",

      // Requires JS, config settings defined in browser.json
      "app": {
        "baseUrl": "/assets/js", // Define app assets directory
        "start": ["app"], // Define app start file
        "paths": {
          "jquery": "/browser_modules/jquery/index"
        }
      },

      // can be accessed directly via requirejs
      "dependencies": {
        "jquery" : "*",
        "underscore" : "*",
        "backbone": "*"
      }
    }

    /* assets/js/app.js */
    define('app', 
      ['require', 
       'jquery', 
       'underscore', 
       'backbone'], function ( require ) {
      // Loaded ! Booyah !
    });

    /* index.html */
    <script data-main='bower' src='require.js'></script>

About the plugin

Simple glue plugin to automatically expose lib/deps added in browser.json to the requirejs framework to be used.

TODO

1. r.js build script to utilize the same mechanism.
2. Better way of figuring out library/script dependencies with each other perhaps merge all browser.json from all the scripts and add them as libraries for require js config