dojo._base¶
dojo._base is a roll-up file, and is used to create the core dojo.js after a build. You should never directly
dojo.require("dojo._base") as all the functionality is provided by simply including dojo.js on a page.
<!-- load dojo.js from Google CDN -->
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/dojo/1.7/dojo/dojo.js"></script>
If you are using an un-built Dojo, the inclusion of dojo.js will trigger the inclusion of dojo._base when
async: false is used in the dojoConfig, fetching each of the files in the dojo/_base/ folder within the source
tree. This produces additional XHR activity, and should be avoided in production. After building, these files are
concatenated into dojo.js, providing a 26k “Base Dojo” (~77k without gzip enabled).
In the above example, we are including a X-Domain version of dojo.js, which is slightly larger in filesize (29k), though allows all modules and resources to be loaded from a different domain.
Any function or class hanging off the dojo namespace is typically provided for in dojo._base. dojo.xhrGet,
dojo.animateProperty, dojo.connect, and dojo.require are examples of Base functionality.
Note that use of Dojo in non-browser environments typically requires using Dojo from source so that the package system
can detect the operating environment and include the correct sub-set of the dojo._base functionality. The
Browser-specific subset is the most common and typically the most feature-rich. See the documentation for
dojo.require to understand conditional loading of modules.