Re: [fw-mvc] Creating custom dojo builds...

Peter E Higgins wrote:
> Drew Bertola wrote:
>
>> Thanks Peter and Matthew.
>>
>> I followed Peter's approach and still ended up with 32 file requests.
>> Is there supposed to be that many?
>>
>> It's better than the 60+ requests I get without the layer, but still...
>>
>> Thanks again.
>>
>>
> No. With the layer approach you will have two js resources loaded:
> dojo.js and layer.js -- depending on what is in the layer, you may see
> one request for i18n bundle for the locale. What are the url's for the
> additional requests being made?
>
> One step I didn't mention in the last note is cssOptimize ... if you are
> using Dijit, you'll need a theme obviously, but for maintainability the
> themes are broken into many small files based on widget. tundra.css is
> simply a list of @imports in a -src release. In the "release", we use a
> command line option cssOptimize=comments.keepLines
> cssImportExclude=../dijit.css
>
> This makes a tundra.css "layer" of all the @imports (you can do this too
> in your my/ namespace, provided the css files all use relative locations
> to images and such), and excludes the @import "../dijit.css"; You can
> skip the exclusion of dijit.css, we do this step for backwards
> compatibility.
>
> I suspect the majority of your requests are CSS, as cssOptimize is not
> on by default, so running it against a clean checkout or -src release
> will not build the theme rollups.
>
> So, dojo.js, layer.js, nls/layer-en.js, tundra.css, and however many
> images are referenced in css and being used in the dom would be your
> initial expected request count. I suppose it _could_ be 32 including
> images, depending on how many widgets you are using. Some use sprites,
> others cannot ...
>

They're all js files.

Here's my profile:
------------------------- nt.profile.js -------------------
/* ./build.sh profile="nt" action="release" loader="default"
cssOptimize=comments.keepLines optimize="shrinksafe"
layerOptimize="shrinksafe" copyTests="false" version="0.0.1-nt"
releaseName="nt" */

dependencies = {

stripConsole: "normal",

layers: [
{
name: "nt.js",
resourceName: "nt.layer",
dependencies: [
"nt.layer"
]
}
],

prefixes: [
[ "nt", "../nt" ],
[ "dijit", "../dijit" ],
[ "dojox", "../dojox" ]
]

};

------------------------- nt.profile.js -------------------

and my layer:
----------------------- layer.js ---------------------------
dojo.provide("nt.layer");

dojo.require("dojo.parser");
dojo.require("dojo.fx");
dojo.require("dijit.form.FilteringSelect");
dojo.require("dijit.form.Button");
dojo.require("dijit.form.Form");
dojo.require("dijit.form.ValidationTextBox");

dojo.require("nt.main");
dojo.require("nt.forms");
dojo.require("nt.postingAccordions");

----------------------- layer.js ---------------------------

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