jrburke

I have a node project. I want to use npm once to fetch a dependency, but from then on, do not depend on the npm registry. The packages installed may need to be compiled/built on different operating systems, not all the packages are pure JS.

I do not want an npm mirror, as I do not need all of npm. I just need the specific versions of the packages I need in my project. I would always set dependency versions to exact version numbers, and would explicitly do version upgrades when I needed. My ideal work flow:

mkdir project-node_modules
cd project-node_modules
mkdir node_modules

# install a bunch of packages, but only in source form, no building

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define(["some/module1", "foo", "another/module2", "bar"],
function(module,         foo,   module2,           bar) {
    module.doSomething();
});

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/*
Directory layout
app.html
scripts
- require.js
- one.js
- two.js
- three.js 
*/

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/*
Define a library called foo that has a parse and render
functionality, and a utility function called escape.
*/

/** foo.js **/
//If wanting a global, declare it here
var foo;

//Assemble foo from parts

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//Came across this in the es-discuss list, on the "clean scope" thread:
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2011-August/thread.html#16294

//I do not understand what the "null," part buys.
//Has to do something with scope(?), but at least in Firebug, 
//I can see foo inside the string being evaled.

var foo = 'foo';
(null,eval)('(function(){console.log(foo);}())');

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/*jslint strict: false, onevar: false, indent: 2 */
/*global require: false, process: false */

var requirejs =  require('./jasmine/lib/r.js');

requirejs.config({
  nodeRequire: require
});

//requirejs(['require', 'jasmine-node', 'jasmine-node/lib/jasmine-node/jasmine-1.0.1', 'sys'],

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//in some/thing.js
define('some/thing', ['a', 'some/b'], function (a, b) {
    return 'value';
});

//YUI loader would apply the return value from the define
//as the 'some/thing' property on the YUI instance, 
//so the above module could be used like so:

//in some code that uses YUI:

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Attempt to list some possible standard AMD loader configuration values.

An AMD loader is not required to implement all of these configuration values, but if it does provide a capability that is satisfied by these configuration values, it should use these configuration values and structures.

baseUrl

String: Indicates the root used for ID-to-path resolutions. Relative paths are relative to the current working directory. In web browsers, the current working directory is the directory containing the web page running the script.

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var requirejs = require('requirejs'),
    foo = require('foo');

requirejs.define('node/print', [], function () {
  function print(msg) {
    //Do whatever you want with the msg here.
    //If you use node dependencies, can just require
    //them outside of this closure.
    foo(msg);
  }