Is RequireJS optimization only applicable to scripts that reside on the same server?

Question

About half of the scripts that I use are on CDN and the other half are on the same server as the app. I don't know what to optimize in this case. Can somebody suggest?

Answer 1

Yes, r.js optimizer cannot load network resources so you don't even have much choice. In your build profile you'll need to replace the path mappings with "empty:", as per the example:

({
    baseUrl: ".",
    name: "main",
    out: "main-built.js",
    paths: {
        jquery: "empty:"
    }
})

This way both development and minified version of your application will use the CDN version of jquery dependency.