jsrequire

A small lib to add a require functionality to JavaScript files.

Features

Dependencies are solved from one or multiple files
Multiple loadpaths for js file lookup
Simple assets collector for stylesheets
Support for namespaces like ExtJS requires it

A JavaScript file

On top of a file add something like:

/* js foo/bar */
/* css baz */

This requires the js file foo/bar.js and the stylesheet baz.css. Dependencies are resolved in right order of require statments over all files.

Controller

resolve js dependencies

path_to_js = "/absolute/path/to/javascripts"

jsrequire = JsRequire.new
dependencies = jsrequire.resolve_dependencies(File.join(path_to_js, "foo.js"))

rewrite js paths for web usage

@javascripts = JsRequire::web_path_helper(dependencies[:javascripts],
  path_to_js => "/public/javascripts"
})

@stylesheets = dependencies[:stylesheets]

A view file

e.g. in a Haml view template

- for css in @stylesheets
  %link{:rel => "stylesheet", :href => css, :type => "text/css"}

- for js in @javascripts
  %script{:type => "text/javascript", :src => js}

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

Fork the project.
Make your feature addition or bug fix.
Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.