depsDeclarative

Author:Kitson Kelly

Scans appropriately tagged resources for any declarative module dependencies and adds them to a layer. This is designed to specifically compliment the dojo/parser features of auto-require and declarative require.

Description

Modules or resources tagged with declarative will be scanned for their declarative dependencies. Then each layer of the build will be inspected for the module/resource and be replaced with the appropriate dependencies.

Using the auto-require feature, but not building your dependencies into a layer could dramatically decrease the performance of your production application. This provides you a mechanism to use the feature without needing to worry about explicitly requiring your modules in JavaScript. For example if you have the following resource of index.html in your application:

<div data-dojo-type="dijit/layout/ContentPane">
  <button type="button" data-dojo-type="dijit/form/Button">Click Me!</button>
</div>

The dojo/parser will automatically load dijit/layout/ContentPane and dijit/form/Button if they are not already loaded. If you then, in your build profile, tag the resource as declarative:

resourceTags: {
  declarative: function(filename){
    return /\.htm(l)?$/.test(filename); // tags any .html or .htm files as declarative
  }
}

And then include it in a layer (like your dojo/dojo one):

layers: {
  "dojo/dojo": {
    include: [ "dojo/dojo", "app/index.html" ],
    customBase: true,
    boot: true
  }
}

Then you will get a built layer that includes dijit/layout/ContentPane and dijit/form/Button plus all the necessary dependencies. The name of the file to be scanned for dependencies needs to be a resolvable Module ID (MID) by the builder, which usually means that the file is within a package and identified in your package map within the build profile, for example, in the above situation, you might have a packages property of:

packages:[{
  name: "dojo",
  location: "../dojo"
},{
  name: "dijit",
  location: "../dijit"
},{
  name: "dojox",
  location: "../dojox"
},{
  name: "app",
  location: "./app"
}]

It is worthy to note that the builder will not “build” your resources into the layer, like if you used the dojo/text plugin, where the resource would be loaded and in-lined into the layer, it simply scans the resource for dependencies.

The transform also supports the declarative require syntax. Therefore if you have something like:

<script type="dojo/require">
  on: "dojo/on"
</script>

And that resource is also tagged and included in a layer, the dojo/on module would be added as a dependency.

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