How to build an array of paths to installed JamJS libraries?

[Dylan Hassinger]

Hi everybody -

I saw the message from a couple months back, encouraging folks to integrate Jam into other frameworks. I would like to integrate it into Sails.js, a new framework that is pretty slick. But I'm in a little over my head.

>From my outside view, it seems like Jam does 2 things:

• automatically installs frontend packages
• combines those packages and inserts them via RequireJS

For Sails integration, I would like to use that first role - but bypass the second. Sails has its own Javascript bundler/handler, and if I can hand it an array of paths to JS files, then it could pull these files into its bundle.

Ideally, I'd be able to do something like this:

var libraries = jam.getLibs("/path/to/app");

This would then give me an array like so:

['/scripts/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js', '/scripts/mondernizr/modernizr.min.js', 'scripts/some_other_lib/script.js']

I tried experimenting with the ls method and some other methods inside Jam, but I got lost pretty quick. So figured I'd ask here if anybody has ideas on how I could do this - or if anybody would be interested in helping me add a method like this? I think it could be very useful for other folks trying to tie Jam into their stacks.   (RequireJS bundling is just not for everybody.)

Thanks for any suggestions!

dylan

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[Caolan McMahon]

Hi Dylan,

It's the RequireJS optimizer (r.js), that does the collecting of files
on compilation. Perhaps adding an option to exclude require.js from
the compiled output would allow you to simply include that in whatever
Sails creates?

Caolan

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[Dylan Hassinger]

Hi Caolan, thanks for the response.  That option sounds like it would do the trick. 

Just to be clear, I don't need the assets compiled together or minified at all.  I just need them downloaded and saved into a specified folder.

Let me know if I can help at all!  I really think this would help other framework authors tie in JamJS too. cheers