Option to not add a .js extension to dependency module

I’m submitting a feature request

• Library Version: 0.18.0
• Operating System: OSX 10.x
• Node Version: 6.2.0
• NPM Version: 3.8.9
• Browser: all
• Language: TypeScript 1.9

Current behavior: When adding a dependency to the aurelia.json file it automatically adds a .js extension. I’m running into the issue of trying to load the square javascript library which can only be used with their cdn. The cdn url does not have a .js extension https://js.squareup.com/v2/paymentform.

Expected/desired behavior: Have an extra option field where you can disable the adding of the .js extension or maybe a cleaner way to let the bundler know not the add the .js extension.

What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior? Trying to add payment processing to my app using square (https://squareup.com/). They don’t allow their library to be used outside of their cdn so they don’t have any npm or bower modules. I’ve tried adding a script tag in my index.html page but I can’t use the library inside any of my classes since Aurelia does not know of the global variables from that file. I tried adding it to my dependencies like so:

{
   "name": "paymentform",
    "path": "https://js.squareup.com/v2/paymentform",
    "exports": "SqPaymentForm"
 },

But since Aurelia adds the .js extension it never finds the link

[3cp]

Current cli doesn’t support deps defined with path starting with http(s)://. It could be some dropped feature since v0.18.0.

I am pretty sure the previous feature uses requirejs config paths, where requirejs adds “missing” .js. That’s not in our control.

requirejs.config({ 
  paths: {
    "paymentform": "https://js.squareup.com/v2/paymentform"
  }
  ...

However, that js lib is in legacy format, only suppling a global var SqPaymentForm, it should be loaded by prepend instead.

Unfortunately cli’s prepend doesn’t support remote link.

The successor of cli bundler, dumber bundler does support remote url in prepend and append. I tested it, confirmed "https://js.squareup.com/v2/paymentform" works without the annoying .js.

[3cp]

I don’t think this is in our control, it’s the default behavior of requirejs when loading module from remote.

Update: I think I misunderstood. Is this some js code loaded by prepend? Nvm, I will have a look in a day or two.