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The tutorials got me going with the Dojo build system. However I'm left with a question that'll make or break the possibility of deploying a fully built release in my case. It is possible that the tutorial explains it, but that I didn't get it. Apologies if that was the case !

I use a library that lives inside an AMD layer ; let's call it blackboxLayer.js. There are several packages inside that layer, but I suppose the question would be the same if there was only one. So let's say that blackboxLayer.js contains a single package called blackbox, with modules blackbox/A and blackbox/B. To be sure that things are fun, that layer is bootable. And of course it's closed source stuff.

My app modules reference blackbox/A or blackbox/B. How do I make my build profile go look for the blackbox package inside that blackboxLayer.js file, rather than in a directory ?

Thanks for any input. :)

Mathias Dolidon
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If built file blackboxLayer.js is in relative path /release/blackbox/layers, there is a separate dojo layer

<script type="text/javascript" src="path to dojoLayer.js"></script>

and

var dojoConfig = {
    packages: [
        { name: 'blackbox', location: 'release/blackbox' }
    ]
};

then code inside this function can reference modules A and B,

require(['blackbox/layers/blackboxLayer'],
function () {
    require(['dojo/parser', 'dojo/ready'],
    function (parser, ready) {
        ready(function () {
            require(['blackbox/A', 'blackbox/B'],
            function (blackboxA, blackboxB) {

                // call blackboxA and blackboxB

            });
        });
    });
});

If there is no separate dojo layer, you can reference blackboxLayer.js in the script tag, and omit the package def and requiring blackboxLayer.

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The interim solution I've been using since this question has been posted is NOT to use dojo's builder... Instead I use a lightweight grunt pattern that concatenates AMD sources into a layer, and then I reference the layer from dojoConfig's deps property. The concatenation process is visible here : https://github.com/gruntjs-updater/grunt-amd-concat

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