example that uses data-main for baseUrl about example-multipage-shim

[jrburke]

What you mentioned is the way to do it:

<script type="text/javascript">
        require(["common"], function() {
                require(["myApp"], function () {});
        })
</script>

There are no plans to support a data-config attribute on the script tag. It complicates build scenarios and will lead to more support questions on how it actually works. Where having the explicit require calls done avoids those issues.

You could implement that yourself though, by having all pages use a data-main="config.js" and config.js would set the common config, then grab document.getElementsByTagName('script') and look for one that has a data-config attribute on it.

[mikko-apo]

Thanks for the comments and it's understandable that you don't want to complicate the API.

Anyways, I think it would be good if that solution was added somewhere to the documentation or the example pages. It took some time before we figured out that there was a race condition between loading the data-main config and loading the rest of the required files (since they were loaded in parallel).

[jrburke]

One of the goals of this sample repo was to demonstrate that technique, used in the HTML files:
https://github.com/requirejs/example-multipage-shim/blob/master/www/page1.html

The discussion of the problem with data-main is talked about a little bit in the readme, but I do appreciate that there is a lot going on in the readme and there may be a better way to say it.