How to load with requirejs?

[ericsvendsen]

My project uses requirejs to manage dependencies, and when I set up the config for knockout and then observableDictionary, I get a "ko is not defined" error, I think because your code is expecting ko to be in the global scope. My config looks like this:

requirejs.config({
    paths: {
        'knockout': '../Scripts/knockout-2.3.0',
        'observableDictionary': '../Scripts/observableDictionary'
    },
    shim: {
        'observableDictionary': {
            deps: ['knockout'],
            exports: 'observableDictionary'
        }
    }
});

The only solution I have at the moment is to wrap your code in a define block, but that's obviously not a good long-term solution. I'm pretty new to requirejs so it's entirely possible that I'm missing something. Any insight you might have would be great. Thanks!

[aelsmore]

Did you ever get an answer to this?

[JeffreyDevloo]

This is for future readers:

Replace the current header

(function () {
function DictionaryItem(key, value, dictionary) {

with:

(function (factory) {
    // CommonJS
    if (typeof require === 'function' && typeof exports === 'object' && typeof module === 'object') {
        factory(require('knockout'));
        // AMD
    } else if (typeof define === 'function' && define.amd) {
        define(['knockout'], factory);
        // Normal script tag
    } else {
        factory(window.ko);
    }
}(function (ko) {
    function DictionaryItem(key, value, dictionary) {

then in your requirejs.config:

'knockout-dictionary'   : './path/to/file',
...
// App bootstrap code
define(['knockout-dictionary'], function () {
...
})

Requirejs will load in the file. It has a dependency to knockout, which is a singleton across the whole appplication. That singleton will receive the observableDictionary method and it will be available across the whole application