Building ArcGIS with bower, node, grunt

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I am struggling with setting up arcgis javascript api locally. Tried following https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/guide/get-api/index.html#using-bower-for-local-builds but no use. No help from sample application https://github.com/Esri/jsapi-resources.git

Bower installs arcgis-js-api
I setup a dojoConfig file
npm install
bower install
grunt build => FAIL

Error: Cannot find module "src/dojo/dojo.js"

how is it supposed to work since bower installed packages are not npm ready. cannot be dynamically loaded. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. please help.

Tried a yeoman generator arcgis-js-app still no good. I get the same error /sampleapp/src/dojo/dojo.js" Error (404): "Not found"

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 14 '16 at 17:20

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Assuming you are working with the sample application as is (i.e. you're not modifying it yet), then it sounds like your bower install failed. Under src you should see folders like esri and dojo - if they are not there, then the bower install did not complete.

answered Aug 14 '16 at 17:20

Tom Wayson

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Hi. actually bower install is good. I can see folders "esri" "dojo" "dgrid" ..etc – Jabran Saeed Aug 16 '16 at 04:54
[correction] why would bower install under src? bower would install in bower_components. src/dojo.js should be a built version of the code. – Jabran Saeed Aug 16 '16 at 05:00

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 27 '17 at 12:31

You can configure Dojo like :

  var dojoConfig = {
  baseUrl: '.',
  packages: [
  {
    name: 'dgrid',
    location: 'bower_components/dgrid',
  },
  {
    name: 'dijit',
    location: 'bower_components/dijit',
  },
  {
    name: 'dojo',
    location: 'bower_components/dojo',
  },
  {
    name: 'dojox',
    location: 'bower_components/dojox',
  },
  {
    name: 'dstore',
    location: 'bower_components/dstore',
  },
  {
    name: 'esri',
    location: 'bower_components/esri',
  },
  {
    name: 'put-selector',
    location: 'bower_components/put-selector',
  },
  {
    name: 'xstyle',
    location: 'bower_components/xstyle',
  }
  ]
  };

or configure bower (in .bowerrc):

{
"directory":"src/"
}

Source: official documentation.

Building ArcGIS with bower, node, grunt

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