mquandalle/meteor-bower

Bower packages are loaded after app code, not before

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nilnullzip commented

I would have expected bower packages to be loaded before my app code so the could reference it. For example:

bitcore = require('bitcore') # Bower package
foo = ()->
  bitcore.foo()

However it appears that the bower packages are loaded at the very end after almost all of the app code (although before main.) Thus bower packages cannot be used as above and referencing them is problematic. Would it be possible to move the bower load order to be ahead of all app code? Thanks!

lorensr commented

Hi Juan, it's working for me:

https://github.com/lorensr/meteor-bower-84

nilnullzip commented

Hey Loren, thanks for looking at it! I tweaked your test case to demonstrate the problem. Put test.coffee in a directory and it fails with a console error saying require not defined:

https://github.com/nilnullzip/meteor-bower-84

If you look at the script tags in the head you will see that the bower packages are loaded after test.coffee.

lorensr commented

Okay, thanks – didn't know what you meant by main. Would accept a PR for this.

nilnullzip commented

I just found the part in the readme that say that load order is controlled by placement of the bower.json file. So I moved my bower.json into /lib, and that advances it sufficiently for my purposes. I am closing this report now. Thanks!