I am trying the RequireJS AMD,
And would like to load - among others (jquery, bootstrap, d3, moment...) - the graph library sigmajs, But when I load it in a module, It is undefined... However it exists in the window object...
Is it a bad practice to require it in a module ? Should it require it in the global requirejs bootstrapping and use it from the window ?
Here is my application bootstrapping :
// My application root folder
index.html
build.js
assets/
package.json
bower.json
gulpfile.js
js/
app.js
modules/
graph.js
vendor/
require-2.1.14.js
jquery-2.1.1.min.js
underscore-1.6.0.min.js
d3-3.4.11.min.js
moment-2.7.0.min.js
sigma-1.0.2.min.js
my-own-npm-module-1.0.0.min.js
css/
My app.js file : requirejs bootstrapping, seems to work well
// /assets/js/app.js
requirejs.config({
baseUrl: 'assets/js/vendor',
paths: {
'jquery': 'jquery-2.1.1.min',
'bootstrap': 'bootstrap-3.2.0.min',
'moment': 'moment-2.7.0.min',
'_': 'underscore-1.6.0.min',
'd3': 'd3-3.4.11.min',
'sigma': 'sigma-1.0.2.min',
'my-own-npm-module': 'my-own-npm-module-1.0.0.min',
'app': '../modules'
},
shim: {
'bootstrap': {
deps: ['jquery'],
exports: '$'
}
}
});
// App loading
requirejs([
'jquery',
'bootstrap',
'app/graph'
], function ($, bootstrap, graph) {
graph.initialize();
});
My graph.js file, requiring the unfortunately undefined sigmaJs
define(['sigma', 'd3', 'my-own-npm-module'], function (sigma, d3, MyOwnModule) {
var initialize,
graph;
initialize = function () {
console.log('init', d3, sigma, sigma === window.sigma, MyOwnModule);
// Here, d3 is well loaded and even MyOwnModule.
// But unfortunately, sigma is undefined even if window.sigma is loaded
// And of course, sigma === window.sigma returns false.
graph = new sigma('graph-container');
}
return {
'initialize': initialize
}
});
This seems to be a current small problem with SigmaJS ; It is however possible with the nodeJs version of sigmaJs :
npm install sigma
The working script file will then be located in :
node_modules/sigma/build/sigma.require.js
However this require call of sigma.js only loads sigma in the window object ; To prevent this export, the cleanest way would be to use the "shim" option of requirejs :
requirejs.config({
baseUrl: 'assets/js/vendor',
paths: {
'sigma': 'sigma-1.0.3.require'
},
shim: {
'sigma': {
exports: 'sigma'
}
}
});