Question

I wrote a backbone.js app that uses require.js and is broken up with models/, collections/ and so forth. I then wrote another app that depends on the first app (and some other things. The files are laid out like so:

/scripts/appA/
             models/
             collections/
             views/
/scripts/appNeedsA/
             models/
             collections/
             views/

What do I put in the needsA to require appA? The below seems logical to me but doesn’t work. If I use ../../appA, that finds appA but IT’s dependencies can’t be found because the root is wrong.

define(
  ['underscore', 'backbone', '../appA'],
  function (_, Backbone, appA) {
     ...
  }

Answer 1

The proper solution is to:

define(
  ['underscore', 'backbone', 'appA/views/whatever'],
  function (_, Backbone, appAWhateverView) {
     ...
 }

and to set your require.config paths to include:

require.config({
    paths: {
         appA: '../appA'
    }
});