Question

I have an issue when trying to optimize client scripts that use client-side jade templating. Initially, I had an error as described in Require.js + Backbone optimization, but then I removed the “text” module from the paths configuration, added it to excludes and made text.js available locally. After doing that, I get an error where the optmizer tries to resolve the parameter being passed to the text module.

Here’s my client-side template:

define([
'Handlebars',
'text!/templates/product/something.jade'
], function(Handlebars, txtSomething) {
   var template = Handlebars.template, 
       templates = Handlebars.templates = Handlebars.templates || {};

   templates['something'] = Handlebars.compile(txtSomething);
});

And then the optimizer configuration:

({
  baseUrl: ".",
  name: "product",
  out: "product.js",
  paths: {
    Handlebars: "empty:"
  },
  exclude: ["text"]
})

And the error I get:

Error: ENOENT, no such file or directory 'C:\templates\product\something.jade'
In module tree:
  product
    modules/something
      templates/something
        text

Any advice on how to resolve the issue?

Answer 1

I precompile the handlebars templates before running optimization. that removes the text references