Question

WHere can I get a XD version of dojo source like the one hosted on google? What I want to do is to host dojo source from my local CDN, and my custom dojo module in my web application. Is this a good practice? or I might as well just include the dojo source in my web app, and run the custom build?
Thanks,

Answer 1

You can build an xd version of dojo from the source code

Here are instructions on how to do it:

http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.7/quickstart/custom-builds.html

See the section on “doing xdomain builds”

In our organization (a large one), we do have a CDN version of dojo deployed on internal CDN mainly since some of our webapps are not allowed to access extranet (firewall issues).

For performance, though, a custom build gives biggest boost since it is customized to the modules you need/use – once the custom build is done, you only need to ship a single compressed js output file and a small number of supporting files

When doing your custom build, you can use the xdDojoPath and loader=xdomain if you wish to use cross domain dojo to load your optimized js – see http://osdir.com/ml/cometd-users/2011-08/msg00050.html for some notes on this

Also see related SO question: Dojo on a CDN vs own install