Question

With require.js, can you specify the order! plugin to be used within the ‘paths’ config object? I’m trying to avoid having to type ‘order!’ for several base modules that I always want included in a certain order.

My config:

require.config({
    paths: {
        jquery: 'libs/jquery/jquery-1.7.2.min',
        underscore: 'libs/underscore/underscore-min',
        backbone: 'libs/backbone/backbone-min',
        order: 'libs/require/plugins/order'
    }
});

I tried it this way, but it included the ‘order!’ string in the actual path it was looking up.

require.config({
    paths: {
        jquery: 'order!libs/jquery/jquery-1.7.2.min',
        underscore: 'order!libs/underscore/underscore-min',
        backbone: 'order!libs/backbone/backbone-min',
        order: 'libs/require/plugins/order'
    }
});

Answer 1

Check out the AMD forks of Backbone and Underscore, maintained by James Burke who created RequireJS. If you use these versions then you won’t have to use the order plugin!

More info about these forks…