gulp-requirejs-chain

#gulp-requirejs

Information

A small, simply, very easy wrapper around the require.js optimizer to work with gulp.js

Package	gulp-requirejs
Description	uses require.js's r.js optimizer to combine require.js AMD modules into one file
Node Version	>= 0.4

##Installation

Simply add gulp-requirejs as a dev-dependency in your package.json or run

$ npm install --save-dev gulp-requirejs-chain

Usage

Because the require.js optimizer (r.js) is a kind of build system in itself we can't use the gulp.src([...]) syntax at the moment (I might add this in future), instead this wrapper itself emits a pipable stream, holding a 'virtual' file, in which the result of the r.js build process are saved.

The resulting stream can be treated like a regular gulp.src(...) stream.

NOTE: The built in minification/obfuscation is deactivated by default and can not be switched on. Please use a gulp plugin like gulp-uglify for this.

var gulp = require('gulp'),
    rjs = require('gulp-requirejs-chain ');

gulp.task('requirejsBuild', function() {
    rjs({
        baseUrl: 'path/to/your/base/file.js',
        out: 'FILENAME\_TO\_BE\_OUTPUTTED',
        shim: {
            // standard require.js shim options
        },
        // ... more require.js options
    })
        .pipe(gulp.dest('./delpoy/')); // pipe it to the output DIR
});

Error handling

gulp-requirejs will emit errors when you don't pass an options object and if the baseUrl or out properties are undefined.

The requiere.js optimizer itself might also emit errors; unfortunately there's no way of catching them elegantly at the moment.

Options

The options object supports the same parameters as the require.js optimizer.