benefitting from the requirejs-optimizer about knockout-amd-helpers

[rniemeyer]

You would want to take a look at the include option in the build file. It can help you add specific dependencies to be optimized.

[nmehlei]

I tried that, and it was successfully included in the packaged file, but nevertheless your plugin downloaded it again ;) My guess would be somehow different paths or something like that, but I couldn't see from the library source how exactly the path has to be to be identical. Could that be the reason?

[rniemeyer]

@nmehlei could be. Can you post some details about your build file and structure? I committed an optimized build of the little example in this repository.

One thing that could be happening to you is that your ko.applyBindings call could be happening before your templates are defined in the optimized output. As a test, you can try calling ko.applyBindings in a setTimeout 0. When I optimized the example, I noticed that this was happening at first to my top-level templates.

[anacronw]

Thanks, that worked for me and it did not redownload the file.

It doesn't seem, however, that there's a way to automatically include all the template files. I see in the example that each template file is explicitly set. I see why, however, since the dependency is a dynamic require call - there's no way for the optimizer to really know beforehand.

[nmehlei]

Sorry @rniemeyer, forgot to answer, but everything worked fine after I corrected the paths in the build file for r.js (in my case 'text!../../Content/Templates/bla..', the ../ were necessary and I didn't see that at first).
@Badunk you're right, there is no wildcard support. but I think you could use the power of nodejs to include a small script in your r.js build file that traverses your directories, builds a list and uses that...I think I read that somewhere.

[rniemeyer]

@Badunk @nmehlei - as far as dynamic dependencies, you can take a look at this article that I wrote that describes a grunt task to help. Should be possible to write something for other build systems as well.