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<h1>FAQ: RequireJS Optimizations</h1>
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<li class="hbox"><a href="#usage">How do I use the Optimization Tool?</a><span class="spacer boxFlex"></span><span class="sect">§ 1</span></li>
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<li class="hbox"><a href="#wrap">How can I provide a library to others that does not depend on RequireJS?</a><span class="spacer boxFlex"></span><span class="sect">§ 2</span></li>
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<li class="hbox"><a href="#namespace">How can I namespace my code to play well in other people's pages?</a><span class="spacer boxFlex"></span><span class="sect">§ 3</span></li>
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<h2><a name="usage">How do I use the Optimization Tool?</a><span class="sectionMark">§ 1</span></h2>
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<p>See the <a href="optimization.html">general optimization page</a> for basic set-up. Also see the <a href="jquery.html">jQuery doc page</a> for a good way to set up your project, even if you are not using jQuery.</p>
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<h2><a name="wrap">How can I provide a library to others that does not depend on RequireJS?</a><span class="sectionMark">§ 2</span></h2>
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<p>If you are building a library for use on web pages that may not use RequireJS or an AMD loader, you can use the optimizer to combine
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all your modules into one file, then wrap them in a function and use an AMD API shim. This allows you to ship code that does not ship with all
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of RequireJS, and allows you to export any kind of API that works on a plain web page without an AMD loader.</p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/jrburke/almond">almond</a> is an AMD API shim that is very small, so it can be used in place of require.js
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when all of your modules are built into one file using the RequireJS optimizer. The
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<a href="https://github.com/jrburke/r.js/blob/master/build/example.build.js#L429">wrap</a> build config option will put a function
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wrapper around the code, or you can provide your own wrapper if you need to do extra logic.</p>
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<p>See the almond project for details on how to build with the API shim and with wrap.</p>
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<p>If you need to dynamically load code after a build, then using almond+wrap will not be sufficient as almond cannot dynamically
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load code. Instead, you may want to namespace your use of require/define. See next section.</p>
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<h2><a name="namespace">How can I namespace my code to play well in other people's pages?</a><span class="sectionMark">§ 3</span></h2>
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<p>If you want to provide your code to web sites that may not use an AMD loader, and you need to dynamically load code,
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doing a simple <a href="#wrap">one file build with a wrapper</a> is not enough. You also may want isolate your loading needs from
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the page's AMD loader.</p>
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<p>There is a <a href="https://github.com/jrburke/r.js/blob/master/build/example.build.js#L276">namespace</a> build option that
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does the following:</p>
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<li>Renames requirejs, require and define uses to have "namespace." in front of them.</li>
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<li>If the file does an existence check for define, in the following form <code>typeof define === 'function' && define.amd</code>,
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then it will prefix the define references with "namespace.".</li>
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<li>If require.js is included in the built file, it will make sure it exposes the "namespace." versions of the API.</li>
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<p>Do not code your source with namespace.require()/namespace.define() calls, but rather use require()/define() as you
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normally would, then use the optimizer to do the renaming.</p>
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