Question

I’ve looked at the dojo-node module (https://github.com/agebrock/dojo-node) and the author says that Dojo 1.7 will support Node.js natively.

There is a configNode.js file in Dojo 1.7, but I’m not sure how to use it to have Dojo up and running.

http://download.dojotoolkit.org/release-1.7.0b1/dojo-release-1.7.0b1/dojo/_base/

Can somebody point me into the right direction? Perhaps show me a small example also?

Appreciate any help I can get.

Answer 1

Here’s my solution, although it may look tricky since I can’t search out any official examples, I have to read the source and work it out:

1. Assume dojo is under /home/root/dojoroot/dojo/dojo.js

2. Create /home/root/mynode/test.js with content:

   dojoConfig = {packages:[{name: 'test', location: '../../mynode'}]};
   require('../dojoroot/dojo/dojo');
   

3. Create /home/root/mynode/main.js with content:

   define(['dojo/date'], function(date){
       console.log('Hi ' + date.getTimezoneName(new Date()) + ', welcome to NodeJS!');
   });
   

4. $> node /home/root/mynode/test.js load=test