Question

I am upgrading a project from Dojo 1.6.1 using AMD and RequireJS to Dojo 1.7.1 with its new AMD loader. I have to deal with old JavaScript files, not written as AMD modules, and have to load them in the correct order.

Before I used the RequireJS order plugin, but it does not seem to work with Dojo AMD Loader. I can not find anything about it in the loader documentation or the Dojo Build System documentation.

Any thoughts about this? If there is no order plugin, how should I handle plain JavaScript files together with Dojo 1.7? Do I need to handle them separately, or are there functionality for this in the loader or build system?

Answer 1

I’m just learning about this myself, but the documentation I found refers to Generic Script Injection

Load your generic scripts as described in the docs, while specifying {async: 0} as a configuration option for require(). This, to my understanding, does load the scripts in the order that you specify in the the second parameter (the array containing the script filenames/paths)

My example:

require({async:0},['test1.js','test2.js','test3.js'],function(){
    //do stuff with reference to loaded scripts

});

My local tests show if I change config to {async: 1} the scripts load in a different order to what I specified. So far I haven’t tracked this down in the dojo loader code, but it seems to make sense, and work, and isn’t a hack.