add: do recursive dependency install about volo

[KidkArolis]

Hi James. I was wondering if there is any progress with this feature?

I'm thinking about splitting my large app into modules. The main container app would then have a package.json listing all of the modules as dependencies. Each module might have other modules as dependencies as well as "jquery" and "backbone" and other libraries. I want the following 2 scenarios to be possible:

1. Running any module standalone. I would have to do volo install (similarly to npm install), to install dependencies for this module locally.
2. Running the main container app with all of the modules. This time, when I run volo install, I want all of the nested dependencies to be loaded in such a way that I only have a single jquery file and a single backbone file and all my modules would correctly reference those files. I could then build the core app, the modules and library dependencies as separate AMD modules or all as one file.

Does that make sense? Do you know if it's currently possible with any other tools out there? Is this something that volo wants to support in the future? Is volo in a good enough state for me to take an attempt to build this kind of feature in?

Thanks!

[jrburke]

The 0.2.0 release has recursive install capability now, it looks in the package.json's volo.dependencies for the dependencies. It is still new though, so I'm sure there are some rough edges. Feel free to open more targeted bugs around them if you see them.

[passy]

Very cool, I will give it a try. Thank you, James!

[KidkArolis]

Awesome!