Changing requirejs baseUrl has side-effects

I’m submitting a bug report (but I’m not entirely sure if this is a bug or intended)

• Library Version: 0.21.0

Please tell us about your environment:

• Operating System: Windows 8

• Node Version: 6.2.2

• NPM Version: 3.10.5

• Browser: all

• Language: all

Current behavior:

According to the documentation we can set requirejs config settings. I’ve tried to set this:

"baseUrl": "scripts/"

The reason for this is I’d like to dynamically load some components (aka “plugins”) which are not bundled. I’d like to have these components in scripts/plugins/. If I don’t change the baseUrl, the bundle tries to load these plugins from src/plugins, which will not be available on a production server.

If I do change the baseUrl, the module ids are generated to be relative to scripts, so for instance main.js is bundled like this:

define('../src/main', ...

This leads to the bootstrapper not finding any aurelia libs or the main entry point of the app. Other files are bundled with the same prefix (../src/).

Without this change, requirejs modules are defined like this:

define('main', ...

Expected/desired behavior:

• What is the expected behavior?

In my opinion, setting requirejs baseUrl should only affect the requirejs configuration in vendor-bundle.js.

In other words: If I change this manually in vendor-bundle.js it works as I expect it. Files are bundled correctly and plugins are loaded from scripts/plugins.

I will upload a reproduction repo in a few minutes.

[3cp]

BTW, I recall when I uses cli-bundler yrs before, I did use gulp-replace to touch the vendor-bundle.js, just replace "baseUrl": "src" to "baseUrl": REQUIREJS_BASE_URL.

I then have the global var set in html file like this <script>var REQUIREJS_BASE_URL="/scripts";</script> which is easy for me to control.

BTW, dumber supported that global var by default. Here is the generated skeleton from dumber:

requirejs.config({
  "baseUrl": (typeof REQUIREJS_BASE_URL === "string") ? REQUIREJS_BASE_URL : "/dist",

[Alexander-Taran]

@3cp awesome!!