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- Okay, this is a large chunk of data representing a RequireJS configuration.
- * paths: Defines aliases (short names) for JavaScript files and their locations.
- This section maps short, convenient names to the actual paths of JavaScript files.
Okay, this is a large chunk of data representing a RequireJS configuration. Let’s break down what it means. This configuration is used too manage JavaScript dependencies in a web application.
Overall Structure
The data is a JavaScript object with three main properties:
* paths: Defines aliases (short names) for JavaScript files and their locations.
* shim: Specifies how to load scripts that don’t follow the standard RequireJS module definition (e.g., scripts that rely on global variables). It tells RequireJS what dependencies a script has and what it exports.
* map: Defines URL mappings. This is used to redirect requests for certain paths to different URLs.
1. paths – File Aliases
This section maps short, convenient names to the actual paths of JavaScript files. This makes your code cleaner and easier to maintain.
* Organization: The paths are organized into categories:
* libs: Contains third-party libraries (e.g., jQuery plugins, DataTables, Waypoints).
* fly: Likely contains custom code specific to the application (“fly” might be the application’s codename).
* Root level: Some paths are defined directly at the root, like adobe-pass, facebook, and google.
* Examples:
* "jquery": "libs/jquery/jquery-1.11.4": When your code uses require('jquery'), RequireJS will load the file libs/jquery/jquery-1.11.4.js.
* "libs/dataTables": "libs/dataTables/jquery.dataTables": Loads the core DataTables library.
* "fly/libs/underscore-1.5.1": "fly/libs/underscore-1.5.1": Loads the Underscore.js library.
* Versioned Paths: Notice the use of version! in the shim section. This is a RequireJS convention to help with cache busting. For exmaple, "version!fly/libs/underscore" means that RequireJS will append a version number (likely based on the filename) to the URL to ensure that the browser doesn’t use a cached version of the file.
2. shim – Loading Non-Module Scripts
This section is crucial for dealing with scripts that weren’t written to be used with a module loader like RequireJS. These scripts often assume that their dependencies are already loaded as global variables.
* liveconnection/managers/connection: This is a custom module that depends on liveconnection/libs/sockjs-0.3.4. It tells RequireJS to load sockjs-0.3.4 before liveconnection/managers/connection and that sockjs-0.3.4 exports a global variable named SockJS.
* libs/backbone.marionette: This module depends on jQuery,Underscore.js,and Backbone.js. It exports a global variable named Marionette.
* libs/jquery/ui/jquery.ui.tabs-1.11.4: This jQuery UI tab module depends on jQuery, the jQuery UI core, and fly/libs/jquery.widget.
* libs/jquery/flexslider-2.1: Depends on jQuery.
* libs/dataTables.fixedColumns-3.0.4: Depends on jQuery and datatables.
* libs/dataTables.fixedHeader-2.1.2: Depends on jQuery and DataTables.
* https://sports.cbsimg.net/js/CBSi/app/VideoPlayer/AdobePass-min.js: Depends on https://sports.cbsimg.net/js/CBSi/util/utils-min.js.
* deps: An array of dependencies that must be loaded before the current script.
* exports: The name of the global variable that the script creates. RequireJS will make this global variable available as a module.
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